CONCLUDIKG NOTE. 
the present rolume. A coniparison of tlie personal cha- 
ractci-i sties of these trihes descrihed hy Mr. J. B. Jukes 
in his " Narrative of the Voyage of Her Majesty^s Ship 
^ Fly/ " with the details of Lieutenant Modera given in 
the pi-esent volume, will show that upon this point the 
Dourga natives and the islanders of Torres Strait very 
closely correspond ; still there appears a sufficient dis- 
tinction in their social characteristics to render it im- 
])robable that close intercourse can have subsisted between 
them J at least at a recent period. Nor is it probable 
that the Torres islanders vnll fall under the iufluence 
of IMalayan traders^ although the latter are said to be 
extending their voyages towards them ; for having once 
entered into close and friendly correspondence with Euro- 
peans, they arc not likely to respect a race as inferior to 
themselves iu physical development^ as to the whites in 
civilisation. 
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