UNTUTORED MAN. 
TRANGE and unique as are the plants and animals of 
Australia, yet nothing definite can be affirmed of its 
native human inhabitants. They area peculiar people, sepa- 
rated by a wide remove from the Papuans, the Malays and 
the Negro. Of a dark, coffee-brown complexion, rather 
than actually black, the Australian is but little inferior to 
the average European in height, but is altogether of a much 
slimmer and feebler build, his limbs, particularly, being very 
lean and destitute of calves, a defect which is a peculiarity of 
the darker races of man. His head is long and narrow, doli- 
chocephalic in type, with a low brow, prominent just above 
the orbital regions, but receding thence in a very marked 
degree. The nose, proceeding from a comparatively narrow 
base, broadens outwardly to a somewhat squat end, the eyes 
on each side of its attenuated root appearing drawn together. 
His face bulges into high cheek bones; his mouth is large 
and grotesque, the jaw-bone contracted, the upper jaw pro- 
jecting over the lower, but with fine, white teeth ; the chin cut 
away, and his ears slightly pricked forward. Not only the 
head and face, but the entire body as well, is covered with a 
profusion of hair, which, when freed of its enclogging dirt 
and oil, is soft and glossy. Like most savage peoples, the 
effluvium of his skin, offensive as it naturally is, is very 
much exaggerated by the fish-oil he uses in the anointment 
of his person. 
Almost exclusively directed on the means of procuring 
sustenance, the intellect of the Australian operates wholly 
within the range of the rudest bodily senses. But inside 
