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old skulls, I had been disposed (unorthodoxly) to think man 

 was of more than one race even when we first come upon his 

 rehcs ; and I had grown more and more to place weight upon 

 the view many held, that as West Africa was the home ahke of 

 the black negro and the black gorilla, just as the Islands of the 

 Sun were the abode of the brown orang-utan and the brown 

 Malay, those parts might be " centres of origin." So I fondly 

 hoped it might fall to me to unearth glacial man in Asia as I 

 had done in Europe and America. But neither gravel nor 

 cave in Borneo or other island in the Archipelago had any 

 message for me. Far up the Kinabatangan River I found this 

 (exhibited) the only old stone implement that rewarded me. 

 It is old, almost certainly prehistoric so far as the Dysik race 

 is concerned, but whether it be coeval with our neoHthic or 

 palseohthic, or still newer, there was not a particle of geological 

 evidence to prove. It was reserved, as you know, for M. 

 Dubois to exhume the much-debated Pithecanthropus — the 

 man-monkey, or the monkey-man. The fight on this point 

 has raged fiercely, and the fray has not j^et come even to an 

 armistice ; but this I loiow, that if M. Dubois be lucky enough 

 to catch a five one he vnU be puzzled whether to take it to 

 the Zoo or the Sunday-school. 



From Borneo I went to China, . always in quest of the 

 glacial sangTeal, and travelled mony a weary fit over gravel 

 and loess, in the vain pilgrimage. The China- Japan war sent 

 me to Austraha, for Othello's occupation was gone from the 

 land of Confucius, and unless my old pupil Sun-yat-sen, elected 

 President of China, should lure me from this newest to that 

 quasi-oldest civilisation, here I shall come to rest. What I have 

 done in Queensland to elucidate our ill-used cousin Black- 

 fellow's history I have already hinted at. 



THE NATURE OF THE EVIDENCE. 



Let me now expound in some detail the nature of the 

 evidence ; and permit me once again to emphasize that the 

 pre-glacial, inter-glacial, glacial, or post-glacial antiquity of 

 man depends upon geological evidence, and upon nothing else. 

 The characters of the bones and implements, the associated 

 fauna and flora, have notliing whatever to do A\ith the question. 

 If the beds be, say, inter-glacial so must be the associated animal 

 and vegetable remains ; they sink or s\^im together. Yet this 

 axiom was, by most, overlooked. 



