4 Richard J. A. Berry: 



bringing with him two ahorioinal wt)men named '' Puss " and 

 '"Bet" (4)/' 



It is, therefore, obvious that the earliest lawless inhabitants 

 of this lonely island imported native Tasmanian aboriginal 

 women to Kangaroo Island in the capacity of " -wives," amd hence 

 it comes about thsxit to-day a det^cendant of such a union between 

 a white man and a female representative of one of the most 

 ancient races in the world, is now to be found in Kangaroo 

 Island, far removed from the land of her ancestors.. 



Mrs. S., on the spectator's right in the illustration, is a 

 genuine half-caste Tasmanian, who was born on Kangaroo Island 

 some seventy-five years ago, as the result of the union of a white 

 man — the late N.T. — with a native Tasmanian woman. Educated 

 by the wife of the first appointed head-keeper of the Cape Wil- 

 loughby lighthovise. Miss T. was married to the late Mi'. William 

 S. at Antechamber Bay, prior to the death of either of her 

 parentis. " Her father died subsequently to her marriage ; and 

 her mother, an aboriginal of Tasmania, survived him for ten 

 years, and died at Cape Borda, where she is bui'ied " (4). 



Mrs. S. has one son, and two daughters, one of whom, an 

 imbecile, is shown in the photograph, and who is, of course, a 

 quarter-caiste Tasmanian. 



As at the time of my visit to Adelaide I could not foresee that 

 I should have the opportunity of visiting Kangai'oo Island, or 

 even had I known that much, as I could still not have foreseen 

 that I should have been fortunate enough to come across such an 

 interesting anthropological problem as Mrs. S., I was unable to 

 make any craniometrical measurements as I had none of the 

 necessary instruments with me, though it is an open question 

 if it is not worth the two days' journey to make such measure- 

 ments. As, therefore, it is impossible for me, as yet. at all 

 events, to give any measurementv of this half-caste Tasmanian, 

 we ma}- next, perhaps, briefiy summarise some of the physical 

 characters of this most ancient race, concluding with a resume 

 of some of the theories as to the origin of the same. 



Notwithstanding that the native Tasmanian race only became 

 finally extinct little more than a generation ago, it will be suf- 

 ficiently obvious that the date of its extinction, 1S()8, just about 

 coincides with the birth of anthropology as an exact science. 



