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Further, he is Ras Taffari, Regent of Abyssinia. His mother-in-law is dead. His accuser is Armenian Dr. Alexander Garabedian, onetime favorite of Ras Taffari...
This tale Doctor Garabedian tells. Six years ago he came to Abyssinia to practice the quieter forms of medicine. He became a favorite of Ras Taffari. But Ras Taffari wanted to become Emperor. Two persons were in his way. One was the Empress, Zauditu, daughter of the late Emperor Menelik II. The other was his mother-in-law, sister of the deposed (1916) Emperor Yasu...
Therefore, claimed Doctor Garabedian, when the mother-in-law fell ill two years ago, Ras Taffari wanted him to treat her, after Ras Taffari's own fashion. But "Doctor Garabedian, man of scruples, would not. Consequently, Ras Taffari called in a rival of Doctor Garabedian's, a sinister Greek. Soon the mother-in-law died...
Despite their name, the Ethiopians do not consider themselves racially homogeneous with aboriginal Africa. Color varies In Ethiopia, from a pale olive among the northern inhabitants, through deep brown in the central part of the Kingdom to chocolate tints and true black in the farthest south. Ras Taffari, prince regent, is a black southerner but of the special superior blackness of the province of Shoa. Slim, short, wiry, Prince Ras Taffari considers himself super-Negroid...
Moreover, Prince Ras Taffari is of a turn of mind no less inquiring than Rasselas.† He would, guessed travelers, desire as envoy from any other state, a representative of that state's dominant race. Ras Taffari would want to learn about China from a Chinaman, not a white man; about India from a Hindu, not an Anglo-Saxon; about the U. S. from a Caucasian, not a Negro...