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Ii can readily be seen from the foregoing that the dialects of 
these people are about as meagre in quality and quantity as they 
can well be. If they were but ever so little more so, it would be 
most difficult, if not altogether impossible, for the aborigines to 
— their thoughts or make their requirements known to each 
other. 
From the Middle Darling, right through to beyond Cooper's 
Creek, and stretching thence to Lake Hope, in South Australia, 
the aborigines all speak the same tongue, or nearly the same; at all 
events, over that area of Central Australia they can readily under- 
stand each other without the intervention of Vgalla Wattows.* 
T attribute this circumstance to the fact of that region being a 
very dry and arid one, having but few permanent waters in sea- 
sons of droughts, so that all the native tribes of that inhospitable 
country are compelled, during such seasons, to assemble round 
these waters, there to dwell together, oftentimes for many months 
_ The fact of the tribes inhabiting so extensive an area all speak- 
ongue induces me to imagine that the inhabitants of 
Saat for by the persistent endeavour to forget, which T have 
fore Shown to be one of the leading characteristics of the 
aborigines, 
— kitchen midden, stone axe, and spear-barb, all of which pertain 
exact similitude, at this day, to the aborigines of Aus 
‘ ehey nomenclature is, in almost every instance, due to 
val characteristics, or peculiarities perceivable in physique 
ye a 
lorer, for this interesting fact. 
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‘eminent einebted to my old friend, the late John M‘Kinlay, Esq., the 
