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Show AMONG AFRICAN SAVAGES Curious adventures befall explorers In southern Liberia, as ono of them writes: "When we entered this country coun-try in 1906 wo fired a 'star smell to try to communicate with the column marching from Oka. This was seen by the natives for miles around, and its effect was extraordinary. The Ahiaras, Onichas and their warlike friends, who had spent years building the most marvelous trenches and stockades to guard every possible approach ap-proach to their country, told us afterward after-ward that they had meant to give us a very warm time, but that the star, shell was too much for them. Any one who could do this must be supernatural, super-natural, and they fled into tho. bush and kept up a guerrilla warfare for months, never daring to show themselves. them-selves. . 'in January, 1906, when a small column col-umn was operating in the Ohonhon country, northwest of Bande, it had a lot of trouble with a town called Omo Oga Ngolori. the reason given being that when the Long Juju of Arochuku. was destroyed in 1902, it was brought to this place as being out of reach of tho government, and the Aro priesti tried to re-establish it here and carry on their former customs. At any rate, v It was reported to be a most powerful power-ful Juju. and meant certain death to any one who entered its hiding place. We made a visit to it "All round were sticks stuck In the ground supporting skulls, cres and bones, while blood was splashed over the walls; on theright of the entrance was alarge basin of water about 18 inches deep, hewn, out of the rock, in which water trickled through from the roof, andln which a few fish glided about. ', While xamlnlng this, one of the officers male some remark, setting up a series W echors. which resound-ed resound-ed from theW"s of the cave. Ic certainly cer-tainly was host queer, and was altogether al-together too touch for the few soldiers and others who out of curiosity had followed us hi, for they dropped their carbine sand fled out" |