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of the country had been lowered. Other reasons why they
decided to leave Canada might have been a desire for an
adventure, or a hope to advance the chiropractic science in
another country.^93
Yet another reason why they decided to leave might
have been that Joshua opposed the use of cocaine in Coca-
Cola. No one in the family was ever allowed to drink Coca-
Cola, probably because Joshua had a friend who drank
20 bottles per day. His friend deteriorated mentally and
physically before he committed suicide. This was not a
popular view, so the family received several death threats.
Joshua believed representatives from Coca-Cola delivered
the threats. Another supporter of the campaign against the
use of cocaine had mysteriously fallen out of a window.
The police said he had committed suicide, but Joshua didn’t
believe them. Because of these threats, they may have felt
they didn’t have any other choice than to escape from
Canada.^95
With a freighter, it took the family 30 days to travel to
Cape Town, South Africa – the same city as had resupplied
the ships from the Dutch East India Company. The family
had no plans for what to do when they arrived. To find a
nice place to live, Joshua began flying across the country.^88
One of the cities he flew over was the largest city in
South Africa: Johannesburg. Winston Churchill described
the surroundings when he approached Johannesburg from
the south together with the British army. “We had marched
nearly 500 miles through a country which, though full
of promise, seemed to European eyes desolate and wild,”