Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . race in thegreat island continent, it is on the ex-treme eastern borders where the Papu-ans of Tasmania may have left someevidences of their presence or at leasttheir transmigration. If the inquirer should begin his inves-tigations from the standpoint of Aus-tralia, he might well COn- The Australians elude that the native races ^tnhiheare indigenous to the coun- Nigricans,try, being apparently without derivationfr
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . race in thegreat island continent, it is on the ex-treme eastern borders where the Papu-ans of Tasmania may have left someevidences of their presence or at leasttheir transmigration. If the inquirer should begin his inves-tigations from the standpoint of Aus-tralia, he might well COn- The Australians elude that the native races ^tnhiheare indigenous to the coun- Nigricans,try, being apparently without derivationfrom any other race. In color, it is truethat the primitive people are in affinitywith the Negroes and Hottentots, buttheir general characteristics and person-ality would seem to set them apart fromalmost every other type of mankind. Ithas been agreed, however, that, pro-ceeding on the monogenetic hypothesis,that is, on the supposition of one com-mon origin for all the races of men, the DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—THE BLACKS. 533 Australians may best be classified withthe Black races of Africa, and that theirincoming into the island should be reck-oned from the northern AUSTRALIAN TYPE— by Tofani. Ethnography has not hesitated to tracebackwards from this point, by way ofJava and thence across the Indian oceanto Southern Hindustan, the prehistoricline of Australian dispersion. This, ofcourse, is done to carry out the ever- present supposition of a submerged con-tinent in the region between India and Africa. Thus much being Lemuria seemsi -j. • i.^ J~ necessary to the granted, it is easy to de- suppose| the line of probability which the primitive Black tribes ofAustralia may have made their wayfrom Lemuria into the country of theirpresent occupancy. We shall thereforefollow the hypothesis to its legitimateconclusions, and regard the Australianbranch of mankind as an eastern deflec-tion from a parent stream, which wascommon in its orig
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