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fingers, especially their tips; the nails are small 

 and imperfect ; the feet are broad, and covered 

 both on their backs and soles with a thick skin. 

 This tribe seems to worship nature. They have no 

 fixed dwellings ; they live chiefly on roots and 

 honey, and exchange the latter, together with wax 

 and other productions of their forests, for tobacco, 

 clothes, and rice." * 



Nothing more, so far as I am aware, has been 

 published concerning this race. The description 

 given above leaves much to be desired. The asser- 

 tion respecting the contracted fingers is obscure, 

 and such a condition is directly opposed to any 

 resemblance with the flexible hand of apes. 



Let us turn from a tribe of which the existence 

 is still dubious, to consider the portraits we subjoin 



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Fig. 25. 

 Aidanill, hairless Australian. 



Fig. 26. 

 The same iu profile. 



of a man and woman, aborigines of Queensland, 

 in a district watered by the Ballone. These are 

 Aidanill, the brother, and Dewan, the sister, 



* " The Missing Link," Engineering and Mining Journal, xx. 3 : 

 New York. 



