In Central Africa, the short, stocky, reddish-haired white man who reached Manhattan on a slow transatlantic boat last week is known as The Young Python. But his passport, the Social Register, the 1914 Harvard Classbook, the tax rolls of Rockland County, N. Y. and the corporation registry of Lugene (swank Manhattan opticians) all list him as Frederic Grosvenor Carnochan. Always well off, he could afford to become an amateur ethnologist. During the past decade he concentrated on the Wanyamwesi, a long-nosed, curly-haired tribe of 4,000,000 members who inhabit 30,000 sq. mi. south of...
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