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LAND OF LONG JU JU
A Doc Savage Adventure By Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I. RUNNERS TO DEATH
? Chapter II. WHITE MAN’S VOICE
? Chapter III. THE SEALED BOX
? Chapter IV. THE BLACK HIDE-OUT
? Chapter V. DEAD MEN SIT UP
? Chapter VI. TWO LIVING HEADS
? Chapter VII. SHRINE OF LONG JUJU
? Chapter VIII. WHEN THE BOX OPENED
? Chapter IX. THREE BLACK HEARSES
? Chapter X. SOME STRANGE CRAFT
? Chapter XI. LAND OF LONG JUJU
? Chapter XII. THE KING IS DYING
? Chapter XIII. FEAR OF THE PEOPLE
? Chapter XIV. RAID OF THE SHIMBA
? Chapter XV. THE BAREFOOTED ARMY
? Chapter XVI. THE BURNING "WING"
? Chapter XVII. KING UDU’S RESURRECTION
? Chapter XVIII. THE ARMY STRIKES
? Chapter XIX. THE BURNING KING
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Chapter I. RUNNERS TO DEATH
Two weird figures came running in the white fog. Their queer garments flapped like the sheets of ghosts.
Runners of the jungle should not have been so dressed. The togalike attire was pulled above bony knees,
but the garments were hampering. Any white man who had been in Abyssinia would have identified these
sheets as the chamma. This was distinctive of royal or official rank.

These grotesquely clad runners were far south of Abyssinia. They were now below the great Taveta
forest of Central East Africa, in the foothills of the Parri Mountains. It was a green, fog-soaked
wilderness of silence just now.

Doubtless the place was too silent in the judgment of the taller of the two runners. The pair was
approaching a water hole.

The taller runner halted suddenly. He held up one long, skinny arm. The other runner became motionless.
Both listened intently.
There came only a strange, distant throbbing; like the hard heel of a human hand beating upon some
hollow vessel. The runners knew the sound for a drum. The stretched skin of a kuda, the great antelope
of the country, over the end of a hollowed senecio log.

The runners had been hearing the drum talk for two days and two nights. Five days and nights before,