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Show Iruin Language of tho Cnmeroona, Perhaps nothing moro remarkable has been tho subject of recent investigation investi-gation than the "drum language" of the natives of tho Cameroons, on the West African coast By means of this wonderful system of transmitting sounds the most complicated messages can be conveyed to villages In the most distant parts. In practicing this unique system Of sound language peculiarly shapod drum is used. By dividing the surface of the drum-head into uneven portions, tho instrument upon being struck, may be made to yield two distinct notes. By these and shortening or lengthening the intervals inter-vals between each note a code is established estab-lished with a regular sequence of taps, strokes and intervals capable of expressing ex-pressing every syllable In their primitive primi-tive language. All of the natives understand this code, and so elaborate is it that a chief can by its means Bummon to his presence any villager whom he desires to see," intimating to the latter at the same time tho purpose for which his presence Is required. In this way, too, messages can be sont from village to village over wide stretches of country, the drummer In one hamlet transmitting to tho next the signals he hears, and that with the most extraordinary rapidity. |