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THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. _ 
me. So also the Indias are to the north-west of our 
Madras to § 
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island. The distance from o Sumatra is about 
1,200 miles, and from Sumatra to the coast of Australia 
about 1,400 miles. Such a distance is not impracticable 
to a savage ; for in January 1858, a boat, with a numerous 
family on board, was driven by the westerly winds from 
the Union Group in Polynesia to Mangaia, a distance of 
1,250 miles, in a south-easterly direction, and other 
similar instances of involuntary emigration have 
occurred. In some such way, perhaps fleeing from the 
conquering Aryans, some of the early Kushites of 
Southern India may have come to Sumatra, and thence 
also to our shores, In the woods and mountains of that 
occupying the coasts), and one of these is called Kuba, 
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of Sumatra. Of these Sir James Brooke says: “These 
notice ; in their domestic lives they are amiable, with 
ite vices; they marry but on e, and thei 
Pea I may add 
as a coincidence, that the native name for Borneo Is 
Bruné, and that Bruné is also the name of a large island 
in Storm Bay, near Hobart. 
It thus appears that the islands of the East ee 
Archipelago were at first inhabited by aboriginal D 
the interior or left the islands ; and, as Java an 
eee 
: y near Aust: a large portion - 
native population must have come hither by that rowle 
Tamil and the Telugu; the system of mips ring 
these races is the same essentially as among 
lian tribes. ae 
(11.) Identity of language is a strong evidence of ter 
; thus, I take the Australian tribes to 
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