Certainly, this unnatural passion is
reciprocated by the parent stock; for the Eurasian is barely
acknowledged by his dark brethren and hardly tolerated by the white.
"In spite of my qualifications--I am a Doctor of Medicine, a Master of
Arts, and hold other degrees of Leipzig, the Sorbonne, and
elsewhere--I recognized very early in my career that ordinary practice
was impossible for me. I therefore turned my attention to the special
study of embryology, as I fortunately possessed sufficient private
means to enable me--by careful living--to dispense with the usual
proceeds of my profession.
"In short, I hoped to triumph over my hereditary handicap and to build
for myself a reputation which should rise above the petty disabilities
of caste and place my name upon a level with those of Haeckel,
Weismann, Wallace, Focke and the other great students who have helped
to advance our knowledge of the science of evolution.
"I early turned my attention to the traditions associated with the
_Cynocephalus hamadryas_, or Sacred Baboon of Abyssinia. I took up my
quarters on the banks of the Hawash and succeeded in ingratiating
myself with the Amharun. The result of my sojourn amongst these
strange people is embodied in my work 'The Ape-Men of Shoa.'
"This work is unpublished and may never see the light, but briefly I
may state that the Amharun are a Semitic tribe allied to the Falashas
and have been settled for many generations in this southern province
of Abyssinia.
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