BY R. HAMLY-N-HARRIS. ^ 



this opinion. The bodies in burial were placed facing the 

 east so that they inight see the risintr sun. After burial it 

 was sincerely hoped that the bodies would not trouble 

 them again, and all kinds of precautions were taken in case 

 of revival to hinder their progi-ess through life. Nevertheless, 

 in case of emergency certain utensils were left ready for 

 fchem, and sticks were placed in a definite direction from 

 the graves so as to point the way to the country from which 

 the deceased bad originally come, showing clearly their 

 views on this point. I have shown what the opinion of 

 the l)lack race is upon this .subject and 1 think in a matter 

 of the kind we might agree with the.se primitives with 

 aJacrity and zeal. A cortsiderable difference must in process 

 of time e.xist IjetwetMi tbe man who lives on the steamy 

 coast and the individual \^■ho makes his home out west 

 on the dry uplands, and 1 am inclined to jiroclaim belief 

 in the formation of a ty]K' of human beings s|>ecially. 

 adapted to live in Tropical Queensland. The type would 

 be based on British blood and be so sustained and nourished, 

 and be British in sentiment, but would be amended by the 

 sun and soil, in apj^earance. physique, speech and 

 temperament. There is, however, it seems to me. a fla\\' 

 in the argument, and that is. tluit a Race being more rapidly 

 evolved in ' permanently- isolated " areas makes the 

 evolution of such a type difficult. We know that 

 geographical isolation favours the production of new r;vces, 

 but would such isolatii)n be possible here ( Keith (64) 

 in his recent Presidential Addiess l>efore the Royal 

 Anthropological Society- of Great 13ritain, states that 

 •' clannishness is the incipient stage of specific aversion." 

 Would such clannishness be jjossible in order to make 

 Queensland the cradle of a new bieed ^ Keith has shown 

 most emphatically, using Germany as an instance,; how 

 the national spirit of a country is really akin to a '" tri])al 

 spirit " and that tliis is due to nothing short of tribal 

 isolation, liecause the characteristics which bind the 

 members of a tribe together also tend to isolate them from 

 all surrounding tribes, and though the tendency to })reak 

 down such isolation is brought about by the cultivation 

 of the soil, by the freedom of the seas, and the interchange 

 of trade relationships, it is nevertheless possible for any 



