88 ANTHEOPOID APES. 



fingers, especially their tips; the nails are small 

 and imperfect; the feet are broad, and covered 

 both on their backs and soles with a thick skin. 

 This tribe seems to worship nature. They have no 

 fixed dwellings; they live chiefly on roots and 

 honey, and exchange the latter, together with wax 

 and other productions of their forests, for tobacco, 

 clothes, and rice." * 



Nothing more, so far as I am aware, has been 

 published concerning this race. The description 

 given above leaves much to be desired. The asser- 

 tion respecting the contracted fingers is obscure, 

 and such a condition is directly opposed to any 

 resemblance with the flexible hand of apes. 



Let us turn from a tribe of which the existence 

 is still dubious, to consider the portraits we subjoin 



Fig. 25. Kg. 26. 



Aidanill, hairless AuBtralian. The same in profile. 



of a man and woman, aborigines of Queensland, 

 in a district watered by the Ballone. These are 

 Aidanill, the brother, and Dewan, the sister, 



* " The Missing Link," Engineering and Mining Journal, xx. 3 : 

 New York. 



