194 THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
war, had spread themselves from the banks of the Indus on the 
hile towards 
the south-west they occupied the whole of Egypt and the Abys 
sinian highlands. Thus they held two noble coigns of vantage, 
likely to give them a commanding influence in the making of the 
history of mankind—the valley of the Nile, which, through all 
these ages to the present hour, has never lost its importance—and 
the luxuriant flat lands Pp 
pulse sent them onwards towards o -continentj 
hither they came, as I think, many centuries before the en 
e wav 
early days 
into Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and the Sunda may < 
_ thence into Australia. These stages I will examine presenuy 
in detail. - kingdom 
But, meanwhile, let us look at the old Bahylony to be 
d 
Kushite probably down to the time of the birth of Abraé + 
1996. But before that date, the Babylonian population j hood 
materially changed. Nimrod had conquered Erech ane 
and Calneh in the land of Shinar ; Akkadian 7 
