The Aborigines of New South Wales. 
3 By Joun Fraser, B.A., Sauchie House, West Maitland. 
Tn negro has suffered much at the hands of his fellow-man. The 
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ober therefore, introduce my subject by endeavouring to show, 
onl the relations of the Austral-negro race to the others. 
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| ey proceeded southwards along the course of the Euphrates, 
_ -Eattitg themselves first in the highlands of Upper Mesopotamia 
—— Tnereased families ds had 
| bieds ey occupied fresh territory further to the south, still 
lived Here, I imagine, they 
they tong i peace, the sole possessors of the riches of the land, till 
Pins dislodged by fresh bands issuing too from Armenia, 
able to goniium, where surrounding circumstances were unfavour- 
Comers ent occupation by these infant races. “The new- 
and the Th, the Shemites, descending through the northern passes, 
of Mount 7 Scyths, probably from the north-east by the way 
unt Zagrus and the Tigris. Findin by the 
Tivers, the g Y m possession of all the country between the sitll 
fom ahore netnites and the Scyths hurled themselves upon them 
South an, ~ ag Scattered them in fragments to the east and e 
Dhak eis ® west. Accordingly, the position of the Hamite na 
a ethnically at the opening of history is, in Genesis x. 6, indica 
which pee tee Mizraim 
fined tn e222 Palestine. The Kushites, however, were not con- 
a rl i , but were spread in force along the whole northern 
“lower eon Arabian sea : they were specially numerous on the 
“and tha 88 Of the Euphrates and Tigris, their original seats, 
ibylon’ formed the first germ whence came the great empire of 
4), om this sense the later Greek tradition (Odyssey oa 
Tapa an eastern and a western nation of Ethio- 
a the black races, many centuries before the Trojan 
