s journeys saw three men of n fair race resembling Malays, 

 - of lii^ party saw a fourth.* Tills was near the cave where 

 ,-ere«l some paintinjj^s of clothed people. These four men 



he south of Queen.-,lan(l I have seen several faces distinctly 

 ubby and rather 

 r)]>per colour. Occi 



The admixture of Malay blood goes far to account f 

 should ha\e the hair straight oi- wa^y and not woolly. On 

 have transmitted such htraightuesM)f hair to i)()stent\, but 



were of s 





people 



surely be to make tlie spirals uncui-1. 



Mr. Threlkeld who>,e acquaintan.-e with a New South Wales 

 dialect seem.-^ to h,i\(' b-ccn \eiy tlioi'ough, deniesf that the 



in reply to uhicli it c.ui l.c .aid ili.it nlthough the traces of Malay 



Malay which re<luplioater, to form the i)lural. Often existing .M<lf 



might be moj,i naturally expected, \ ery few are (listing 

 in the Cobourg Peninsula as the analogues of Malay 'gigi' 



f the Aboriginal Languages, p. ! 



