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is prepared to find greater differences between an Austra- 

 lian and a Papuan language than, at the first glance, exists. 

 Let us verify this by reference to some words which relate 

 to the human body, and its parts. 



Few Australian vocabularies are thus similar — a fact 

 which may be said to prove too much ; since it may lead to 

 inference that the so-called Papuan tongue of Torres Strait 

 is really Australian. Nevertheless, although I do not ab- 

 solutely deny that such is the case, the evidence of the 

 whole body of ethnological fact — e.g. those connected with 

 the moral, intellectual, and physical conformation of the 

 two populations — ^is against it. 



And so is the philology itself, if we go farther. The 

 Erroob pronouns are. 



Me = ka you = ma his = eta 



Mine = ka-ra your = ma-ra 



all of which are un- Australian. 



Are we then to say that all the words of the table just 

 given are borrowed from the Austrahan by the Papuans, 

 or vice versd? No. Some belong to the common source 

 of the two tongues, pit = nose being, probably, such a 



