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come one recently. The English Government has repeatedly 

 in official documents acknowledged the wrongs done to the 

 native's/ and expressed the intention of repairing the injury. 

 If it were true that the colonists have contributed but little 

 to their destruction, and that the main cause, as has been 

 as-erted, lies in their own mode of life, 2 then it is inconceivable 

 why they have not long become extinct, since there has not been 

 an essential change in their mode of life. The official protec- 

 torate, which, however, seems to have borne but little fruit, 

 was instituted in consequence of the crimes committed against 

 the natives by the Whites. In several parts of Australia a 

 larger number of natives are said to have been poisoned when 

 it became known that they would for the future be protected 

 against oppression. 3 In many parts of New South Wales 

 they made no secret of it, as Byrne 4 states from his own 

 experience, but even boasted that the natives have been got rid 

 of by arsenic. 



SECTION III. 



THE RESULTS OF INTERMIXTURE OF DIFFERENT TYPES, 

 AND THE PECULIARITIES OF THE MONGRELS. 



Before proceeding to the question of the unity of the human 

 species, we have yet to consider a series of phenomena which, 

 though not so decisive as was formerly believed, still possess 

 more than a secondary importance, namely, the results of inter- 

 mixture and the character of the cross-breeds. These will show 

 that we are not compelled to assume a specific difference between 

 human races. The practical difficulties of fixing the results of 

 intermixture are, no doubt, very great ; still they do not much 

 affect the principle laid down. 



I 1 See the document in Tegg's " N. S. Wales' Pocket Almanack" for 1841, 

 147, Sydney. 

 2 Schayer in " Monatsb. d. ges. f. Erdk. N. Folge," ii, p. 226. 

 3 Eyre, ii, p. 176. 

 * Loc. cit., i, p. 275. 



