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HORN EXPEDITION-ANTHROPOLOGY. 
PAOE. 
Gesture or Sign Lanj^uage - - - - - - 111 
Native Rock Drawings - - - - - - 125 
Diseases 127 
Native Tlicrapentics ...... 130 
Making of Medicine Men or Wizards . . . - 131 
Notes on some Pathological con<litions affecting White Settlers 
in Central Australia . . . - - 132 
Durial 130 
Mourning - - - - - - - -137 
Appendix I.- — 
System of Orthography for Native Names- - - 138 
Appendix II. — 
Stature and Measurements of Living Natives - - 140 
Appendix III, — 
Report on Human Crania, by Professor Wilson - - 142 
Appendix IV.— 
Report on Human Skeleton, by Professor Watson and 
the Writer ------ 1-19 
Appendix Y.— 
Ijist of certain Arunta and Luritcha words - - 154 
Introduction. 
It i.s only those who have made tlie attempt to investigate the modes of 
thought and mainsprings of action of the lower races of mankind that can fully 
appreciate the difficulties of the task. And nowhere, perhaps, are the difficulties 
greater than amongst the Australian aborigines. Ignorant of their language and 
with but brief opportunities of intercourse, the ordinary traveller, at least, has, in 
the course of his enquiries, to encounter the further obstacles raised by the senti¬ 
ments of fear and distrust or the desire to phsase at any sacrifice of truth ; or it 
may happen, even to those who enjoy their confidence and who are versed in their 
ways, that a real lack of comprehension of the meaning of strange terms, and of 
the drift of unusual cjuestions underlies their failure to give information. With 
but few exceptions, those men, now rapidly disappearing from our midst, who 
alone were in a.position to overcome difficulties such as these, have not spoken out 
of the fulness of the personal knowledge and experience which was theirs. I 
allude to those early pioneers and settlers who for years lived in close association 
with the natives at a time when their customs were still uninfluenced by general 
contact with the Europeans; who, knowing their language, listening to their talk 
around the camp fire, often enjoying their complete confidence and witnessing their 
