s to indicate that among our native > Sibi there 
iat ‘the same mixed elements as in ae old Babylonian 
empire 
(7.) So also does the — that several tribes practise circum- - 
cision, that one tribe in Queensland has distinctly 
Shemite tia terri, and that there are among the tribes so 
ancestors, I believe, ional from "Asia. In other parts 
of New South Wales they do not bury the body, but 
Were not interred ; they were laid (1) on mats in a brick 
an or * (2) on a platform of sun-dried bricks, and over 
; huge ram et dish-eover, or (3) in a long 
: earthen jar in two pieces fitting into each other ; the 
o (9.) body did not aoe the earth. 
“al is nothing improbable in the supposition n that the 
first inhabitants of Australia came from the north-west, 
i. it i 18, from Hindostan or Further India. The native 
Traditions of the Polynesians all point to the west oF 
ie West as the quarter from which their ancestors 
the Aus Kum-bo and 
Jie I oe ge gl sh a i A a 3) the ineoriptiona nam 
of Egypt, and in Ai- -gup-t-os, E-gyp-t. 
