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not the descendants of Australians who had been driven out 
of the field by the Dravidians. It is now partially admitted 
that Dravidians are an indigenous people and even Professor 
Haddon has opined that the Dravidians may have always been 
in India, yet the fact remains to be satisfactorily established 
by further researches. 
n the words of Professor Turner of the Benares Universi- 
ty, the sath to knowledge is laborious, the road is long an 
difficult. It calls for high endeavour and the nobility of 
sacrifice. Rut this reward awaits the traveller. 
The origin of the Chinese junk and sampan.—By J. 
L 
fter comparing and describing the outstanding features of these two 
crafts, evidence is adduced in favour of the view that the sampan is derived 
ultimately from a modification of the otis: canoe in use till compara- 
ent of the A 
The truncate transom bow ~~ — of the sree probably vy hr 
y 
form that gives a square-bow appeapaie 6 the junk, are what w be 
expacted if these ane doeoleoed te from two canoe hulls joined together 
by a A inh sat deck-platform. Besides 5 tuts structural evidence, we have 
he te oe ‘junk,’ de 
in D 
dam and sangad—; probably the seargein donga has the same i 
sangara of the Periplus, described ieee eoastiag vais ae Sout 
India, formed of monoxyla joined ‘oasther: seem to have been more like 
craft of the present day ets point to the range of the sea-going 
double-canoe having extended in former days to India and China—the 
e ancestors of the present Polynesian race, 
aT ne 5 the catamaran- 
question is raised of the origin of the term jangada for 
ike sea-rafts used by the coasta native Brae ilians. Is it indigenous or 
introduced by the Portuguese ? 
she te in Old Official Records.—By Sarat CHANDRA 
Roy 
emphasises the necessity of aga from 
h “ 
is paper the author. the many interesting scraps of ethnogra 
this 
er and impending decay, 
; é as a curious i Pe cai of ge 
indi Nnccias fs Gi cha Ge ae ee from the ari ° 
titive Examinatio: 
subjects prescribed for the feces Civil Service Competi f 
to be he Id i in India in 1922, while Anthropology in its various branches ° 
call 
