156 NOTES ON THE ABORIGINES OF NEW HOLLAND, 
saw in the JIlustrated London News of that time the picture of 
two stalwart natives of that region, who were sketched from 
nature by one of the parties who went in search of those unhappy 
explorers. That picture represented those two fine-looking blacks 
to be minus the front tooth, which I considered had doubtlessly 
been knocked out under the sacred ceremony of the 
“Trangung,” the nature of which my notes fully explain. 
The extraordinary though incongruous parallel between the 
religious belief of the natives of this country with those of the 
Hebrews or of Christian nations caused a great d 
on my part. I may mention that almost the first person and 
friend to whom I showed these notes was Mr. Charles Cowpet 
afterwards Sir Charles. He saw them when we met el 
bourne, in April, 1845. He expressed himself to be much 
astonished at the revelations I had thereby made, 
divest himself of the idea that some missionaries, cau 
priests, or clergymen had been tampering with or Merde : 
and leading information. That confirmation I have since are . 
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read, in 1851, he was so struck with the statements made, 
found them so ably and really logically supported by he osked 
for England in 1852 ; he died shortly after reaching home, an . 
copy has never since been heard of. My original paper “ions 
