(4196 — | THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. . 
bbicreire have been pushed down the Ganges into Further India 
and the Malayan peninsula; thence they passed at a later time 
into Borneo, and the Sunda Islands and Papua, and 
across the sea of Timor into Australia, or eastwards into Mela- 
nesia, driven onwards now by the Turanian tribes, which had 
come down from Central Asia into China and the Peninsula and 
islands 2s the East Indies 
Thus, in my view, our is ‘le first received its native population, 
in two ‘lifferent streams, the one from the north, and the other from 
the ngneers ean 
only polished flint axes and implements of stone; the 
later had no written records, and made 
over their dead. The Vedas call them “ noseless,” gros 
feeders on flesh, “raw eaters,” “ not sacrificing, soieed 
ut gods,” * without rites” * ; they pride the ree 
the dead with gifts and raiment and orn: 
suits our aboriginals; they are noses ‘fe they bare 
rasted with the 
straight and prominent noses of the ‘Veilid mh 
they have no gods and no religious rites such as the 
th-west phn Indis 
practice polyandry ; so re our abori 
stan 
circum ces. ‘ incl usivé 
(2.) The Kolarian and Dravidian languages have 
and exclusive forms for the plural of the first per janesia ail 
So also have many of the languages of Melanes!@ por 
Polynesia. ee also the peorinie of the si 
have no information about them 
(3.) The aborigines on the south and west of Australis of 
the same words for T, thou, he, we, you as the | 
the Madras coasts of Tndia. the south 
(4.) The native boomerang of Australia is used wie” of the 
east of India, and can be traced to Egypt— | 
Hamite regions. Turi ; 
(5.) — the red races of Americ¢a—who git the 
: four is a sacred number, having a reference 
cardinal points. In Egypt the pyram nel 
bases, and the Great Pyramid is found to hr ea Cha 
pointing exactly to the four cardinal points. 1. ay 
zans also built their temple-towers a5 PY" 
