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of opinion that the testimonies brought forward in Mr. Brough 
Smyth’s work, as to Australia having been at some former period 
under the influence of a white race, are correct. 
As such, I should class, which I cannot now account for, though 
LT have an hypothesis not yet tested, the curious circumstance that 
the names of languages in Australia are negatives. Now, a whole 
section inmy Prehistoric, and Protohistoric Comparative Philology 
and Mythology is devoted to the exemplification of this remarkable 
characteristic of a negative series. Now one language is called 
the Kabi, and Kaba figures largely in many languages of the old 
world as a negative. : 
Mr. R. Brough Smyth, in the The Aborigines of vari vol. II, 
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Goulburn ; these words, Burapper and Utar, being respectively 
the negatives of each language ; and so of others.’ ao 
This system of nomenclature appears to prevail in the eastern 
of Australia, says the following are the names of some languages 
_ Spoken in the interior :—“ 1. Kamilaroi ; 2. Wolaroi ;3, Wiraiaroi ; 
ail 
wun; 5. Kogai; 6. Pikumbul; 7. Paiamba; 8. Kiugi. 
The first five of these are named after their negatives. In the first 
fe 
es ‘no’; in the second, Wol is ‘no’; in the third 
mul signifi sie ; 
~ Wira is ‘no’; in the fourth Wail is ‘no’; in the ifth Ko is ‘no. 
In Pikumbul, on the other hand, Piku means yes.’ 
to 
Austral world, which in the gate balanced our world, was 
A ia, as in the other hemisphere the north and south worlds 
Were North and South America. : 
Thus the knowledge of this intercourse was long lost, until now, 
We can restore a passage of many thousands of years old in the 
of Australia. 
