Word: carnochan
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...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 Lake Victoria (in Tanganyika Territory, which Premier Hertzog of the Union...
...doctors and scientists of the Wanyamwesi belong to a secret association called the Empire of the Snakes. Mr. Carnochan became a member, received the guild name Young Python, rose in knowledge and proficiency until only Kalola, the late great emperor of the Snake-Men, out ranked...
...Snake-Man Mr. Carnochan was made immune to snake venom. At least the same procedure made natives immune...
They caught cobras, mambas and other deadly serpents with their bare hands, were frequently bitten, but suffered no bad effect. Young Python Carnochan never was bitten, hopes never to be bitten, yet is positive he was immunized by lukago. Lukago is a black sticky medicine made from the heads of venomous snakes and the eyes, brains, tongues and other body parts of eagles, lions, owls, hyenas. In immunizing the Young Python, his Snake-Men colleagues lightly slashed his forehead, arms, back and legs, and into the gashes rubbed lukago. The treatment gave him a terrific headache...
...powder of the kingo root paralyzes the will of anyone poisoned by it and makes him the slave of the poisoner. When Mr. Carnochan got his first & only dose of kingo, he took the precaution of barricading himself in his hut so that no native might take advantage of his willlessness. His experiences, which he described in a report published last month* and again by radio last week...