SUPPLEMENTAL HISTORY OP MAN. 191 



great waters or to the clouds. Annihilation, the 

 materialist's creed, is too absurd for the Australasian 

 savage. 



In the year 1815, Governor Macquarie and a 

 party left Sydney on an excursion some distance 

 into the interior of New Holland, in order to form a 

 settlement at about 140 miles from Sydney, over a 

 ehain of hills called the Blue Mountains. They 

 met many natives who seemed very distinct from the 

 inhabitants in the neighbourhood of the old settle- 

 ment, and spoke a language perfectly unknown to 

 them. The latter have a great dread of this inland 

 race, and believe them to be anthropophagi, though 

 apparently without reason. 



As no figure of these people has been hitherto pub- 

 lished, we have inserted the opposite portrait of a 

 young man from a drawing taken by Mr. Lewin, who 

 accompanied the above-mentioned party. 



After the first astonishment and alarm which the 

 sight of the Europeans created in these inland Aus- 

 tralasians, they very soon cast off all fear, not even 

 carrying their spears with them, but laying them 

 by, persuaded of perfect security. 



They were observed to be a degree more ad- 

 vanced towards civilization than their compatriots 

 of the coast, displaying more art in manufacturing 

 their cloaks of skin, which were neatly sewed to- 

 gether with the sinews of the kangaroo and emu, 

 and fancifully marked in the inside with various 

 figures ; these cloaks, however, were worn for the 

 sole purpose of protection from the weather, and 



