PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 583 



Another interesting connection between Java and Australia is 

 proved by the great similarity of the Australian dingo with the wild 

 dog of the Tengger Mountains of East Java. I visited this locality, 

 in which the veal Canis tenggtraru^, described by Kohlbragge, is only 

 represented to-day by some specimens which are not completely 

 pure bred, but show clearly the characters of the ap})earance of the 

 dingo. (13) 



These facts coiicerning man and clog corroborate the idea that a 

 common centre has existed, a now submerged continent which was 

 connected with Java and with Australia. 



There is not any connection of Pithecanthropus with the recent 

 Malay population of Java. I investigated the Malay race for com- 

 parative studies with the Australians, 



There is no trace of a pal;T^olithic population of Java. The only 

 stone implements found are of neolithic type and recent. I was digging 

 in some caves of thp southern mountains of Java, the only part which 

 is not volcanic. My inquiries regarding relics of an old population 

 were unsuccessful. The rumors of an extinct aboriginal people of 

 Java, for which even a name has been invented ('" Kalangs ") are 

 baseless and purely mythological. 



I returned to Broome (May, 1906) in a very bad state of health, 

 and had to stay for some weeks in the hosyiital. After recovering I 

 made, a second trip to Beagle Bay. In the beginning of July I pro- 

 ceeded to Wyndham, on the Cambridge Gulf, a place which had been 

 prominently before the public in relation to Dr. Hoth's report regarding 

 the ill-treatment of the natives there. 



I am sorry to have to sustain the correctness of Dr. Roth's allega- 

 tions, for, during my stay there of two months, I found the relations 

 between the whites and the blacks so imfavorable that it was impossible 

 for me to get into friendly touch with the numerous wild tribes around 

 Wyndham, every white person being regarded with the dread that the 

 natives attached to police officers, who, in their mind, were Hkened to 

 dangerous aninsals. Excellent material for investigation, however, 

 was found in the prison, where 70 to 80 aborigines were confined. I 

 measured over 70 of them very exhaustively, taking a much greater 

 number of measurements of the body and of the head, combined obser- 

 vation of the complexion and structure, than have been made before. 

 I also secured a very fine material for pictures of the living bodies. 



Nine miles inland from Wyndham I discovered a native cpiarry, 

 which is not known to the blackfellows of to-day. A field of 100yds. 

 diameter in the bush was covered with the relics of the old manufac- 

 tures. The intention had been to get material of a dark-colored meta- 

 morphic sandstone rock with which to make the spear-heads. On digging 

 I found the traces of human handiwork for a depth of nearly a foot, 

 A half-civilised aboriginal near Wyndham completed some of the samples 

 of the quarry to the form, of the leaf-shaped stone heads, which are now 

 imitated in ela'?«?. 



(13) I collected a good deal of anatomical material of the Australian Dingo, 

 which I have sent to Prof. Studer, at Berne, Switzerland, for further investigation. 



