BY R. HAMLYK-HARRIS. 11 



understanding of the Anthropography; Ethnology or 

 Psychology of the fast djdng race, and then the voice 

 dies away, having left no more impression than if it had 

 never been. Such is the utter selfishness of the spirit of 

 the times. It would be interesting to know with what, 

 anathemas future generations ^\iIl pour contein]>t upon 

 our neglected opportunities. 



If it \\ere not for individual enthusiasm it is doubtful 

 whether such scientific investigations would ever have 

 been carried on in Anthropology, especially in those remoter 

 part*! of the Empire, wliere the necessity and advantages 

 of definite method are not recognised or adequately under- 

 .stood. 



In Anthropology particularl\ . there are few paid 

 positions, and consequently research, if it is carried on at 

 all, is invariably the work of the disinterested enthusiast 

 who is in love with his subject, and it is such as these who 

 have kept the flame of Ethnology bui-ning in Queensland. 

 We are neglecting the study of inankind, es])ecially in 

 reference to Queensland, and have made no sy.stematic 

 •effort to accumulate observations which are absolutely 

 necessary to the proper understanding of our subject. As 

 has so often been pointed out, enquiry could proceed more 

 rapidly if we could only investigate the present day crude 

 and simple ideas, that we might more easih' institute 

 <lefinite methods to be applied to other races less Likely to 

 vanish than our own. and Avho can doui)t that knowledge 

 so acquired might in the near future produce greater 

 happiness and greater ]ij-osperity both in us and ihem. 

 It is, indeed, f(}rtunate that the world has ah\a3s produced 

 unselfish characters labouring for the sake of posterity 

 and the good of others, and it is to such that Queensland 

 owes a good deal, and man_%' are the records \\hich have 

 thus been acquired. 



Prior to lOth JJecember, iSoll. Queensland formed a 

 part of New South Wales, and Ma*; known as the Moreton 

 Bay District, the honour of its proclamation as a distinct 

 State falling to the lot of Sir Greorge F. Bo wen, the first 

 Governor; From early records it w ould appear that 

 Gfvptiain Cook (15) entei-ed Moreton. Bay in .1770, and gave 



