10 AUSTRALIA AND THE AUSTRALIANS. 



Besides the above, many words used by the Aus- 

 tralians are apparently, at least, of the same root as 

 words used by the Africans to express the same ideas. 



Such words as woman, breasts, milk, mother, water, 

 rain, mouth, tongue, eat, drink are all traceable to the 

 same root-words whence words meaning the same 

 thing in Africa seem to have come. 



There are, however, notwithstanding these resem- 

 blances, differences in other respects, which almost 

 render it impossible for the reader to assign to the 

 two peoples a common origin. 



The African is a sooty black ; the Australian has, 

 while black, a coppery tint. The hair of the negro is 

 scant in quantity and woolly in texture, while that 

 of the Australian is most abundant, and straight or 

 wavy never woolly. 



As a rule, the negro is almost entirely devoid of 

 beard and whiskers, while the native of the island- 

 continent is abundantly supplied with both ; so that it 

 may be said that the negro is one of the least and the 

 Australian one of the most hairy of men, as our pic- 

 ture of one of them, on the opposite page, will show. 



There is a strong probability in favor of the hypo- 

 thesis that the differences between the two have 

 resulted from a cross of blood. For the reasons given 

 above, " there seems to be no room to doubt," says Mr. 



