CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor)
Sir,— I was lender the impressicn that the game of Diabolo was quite a recent invention, but I find now that it is as old as the hills as the saying is. The following description of the game is taken from "Across Africa," by Lieutenant Cameron, and was written in the month of December, 1874,* at a place called Kowidi, near Kilemba, some two hundred miles westward from Lake Tanganyika:— "One of Jumah's slaves amused us sometimes by exhibiting extraordinary tricks. His particular performance.was with a piece of heavy, hard wood shaped like an hour-glass, and two sticks, each a foot in length. Taking a stick in each hand, he would make the wood rotate rapidly and run backwards and forwards in the most extraordinary manner between the sticks, on a piece of string attached to their ends, then by a peculiar jerk he would send the wood flying up into the air, higher than a cricket ball could be thrown, and catching it on the string would again set it rolling." —lam, etc., T.M.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9151, 25 July 1908, Page 5
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179CORRESPONDENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9151, 25 July 1908, Page 5
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