arly 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"This work is unpublished and may never see the light, but briefly I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. Claiming descent from Menelek, son of Suleiman and the
Queen of Sheba, they have always been regarded as unclean pariahs. In
part this is due to their bestial custom of eating meat cut from
living animals, but it is more particularly attributable to the
periodical appearance among them of these _cynocephalytes_, or
man-apes, which form the subject of my work.

"My close inquiries into the physiological history of these
monstrosities were only conducted with the utmost difficulty. In the
first place I found that it was customary among the Amharun to slay
the creatures at birth, but in those rare cases of survival the
_cynocephalytes_ were banished from the community and were compelled
to lead a wild life, subsisting as best they might in the foothills of
the desolate mountain region.

"Thus, in the first place these creatures were difficult of access; in
the second place, they readily contracted tuberculosis, even in that
warm, dry climate; and in the third place their ferocity rendered them
more formidable to approach than any tiger in its lair. I may add here
that this predisposition to pulmonary disease is (and this I have
definitely established) a characteristic of all mammalian hybrids.

"Nevertheless, my studies were by no means unfruitful, since they
resulted in a triumphant v