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I have the honour to thank you for the study the Geographical Journal has devoted to my memoir on the Jaga and Zimba. I have deeply felt the praise bestowed upon my work by Sir Harry Johnston, and still more his criticisms. I prize highly the good opinion of the eminent Africanist and that of all the Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society. Please allow me to plead not guilty. 1. Sir Harry H. Johnston reproaches me with having just missed reading the works of several writers which throw a considerable new light on the migrations of the African Sir Harry H. Johnston has undoubtedly believed that my purpose was to write a general history of all the migrations of the African peoples. Tantm molis erat! My aim was only to study those that were in some way connected with the Jaga and Zimba. I have read, I assure you, the beautiful historical work of M. Delafosse, the memoirs of Torday and Joyce, and, last not least, ' George Grenfell and the Congo.' Among all those important works the following only have provided me with some document for my study : * Notes on Bayaka ' and ' Ethnology of the South-West Congo State' of Torday and Joyce, which works I have quoted in pages 65, 81, 84, 85, 89, 94, 95, 97, 98, 102, 142 of my memoir. I may even add that the work of Mr. Delafosse was only published six months after my memoirs had been handed
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