THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 195 
ieeome a mixed conglomerate of four essentially different races— 
Hamites, Turanian, Shemite, and Japhetian—which on the in- 
developed among the children of these races, the Ethiopian, 
Seythic, Shemitic, and Aryan all blending—a rare study to the 
Re to pi 
i bplonian conquests had extended from the confines of 
in the sixth and seventh. centuries merged in the 
eth ‘iso Saxon kingdoms. But the rupture of the Babylo- 
complete and the proscription of its worship must have heen so 
People Pg to drive forth from their native seats thousands of the 
tis of the * four tongues” and force them westwards into 
the seta through the mountain passes into the tableland of 
iting’, Jaub, and thence into the Gangetic Plains. Here, 
oe. ® were already located the pure Hamites of the Dispersion ; 
tir ma these 
Vidians and Kolarians are black-skinned and savage 
| boat sae long, these Babylonian Kushites were themselves dis- 
the Arvane 2 m the Ganges valley by a fair-skinned race, 
the north, other and the last ethnic stream of invaders from 
ans. 
Y pposed to the earlier races of India, waged on them a 
Carlier Homi Hemmed up in the triangle of southern India, the 
 Kushiter tes could escape only by sea; the Babylo 
ins of ag the other hand, could not seek safety in the moun- 
—_ ‘te Deccan, as these were already occupied ; they must 
ae rrewl le per-coloured man has been found among the native 
my rasa One ose exhibited in age mee fm he 
Bd hic e ringai tribe, neh inal, 
Qunyas, watched one night tll he was asleep, and cut his head! 
