[Footnote 27: Despatch to Lord Goderich, 6th April, 1833.]
[Footnote 28: The following is worth remembering, as a caution to reviewers, as well as philosophers:--"At Port Dalrymple, in Van Diemen's Land, there was every reason to believe, the natives were unacquainted with the use of canoes; a fact, extremely embarrassing to those who indulge themselves in speculating on the genealogy of natives: because it reduces them to the necessity of supposing, that this isolated people swam over from the main land, or that they were _aboriginal_."--_Rev. Sidney Smith, Edin. Rev._, 1803.]
[Footnote 29: "In many instances (it is remarked by Count Strzelecki, p. 355) the facial angle is more acute in the white man: the superciliary ridge, the centres of ossification of the frontal bones, and the ridge of the occipital one, more developed; and the maxilliary more widely expanded, than in the skulls of aborigines."]
[Footnote 30: Veteran novel readers will be delighted to find, that these black lovers were united by an event, which constitutes the most touching artifice of fashionable fiction.]
[Footnote 31: Report of Mr. Jones to Governor Arthur.]
[Footnote 32: "I remember a fellow of the 'Grimaldi' breed: he undertook, on a fine summer's evening, to place himself among the tree stumps of a field, so that not two of a large party should agree as to his identity. He reclined like a Roman on his elbow, projected his arm as if a small branch, and drew down his head. No one could tell which was the living stump, and were obliged to call him to come out and shew himself."--_Dr. Ross's "Fourteen years ago."_]
"Ne popula raina pogana Thu me gunnea Naina kaipa raina pogana Naara paara powella paara. Ballahoo, Hoo hoo, War whoop (very gutteral)."
[Footnote 34: This is common to the race: there is one now at Geelong, whose imitations enabled the spectator at once to guess the person intended.]
[Footnote 35: A female, born on this division of the globe, once stood at the foot of London bridge, and _cooeyed_ for her husband, of whom she had lost sight, and stopped the passengers by the novelty of the sound; which, however, is not unknown in certain neighbourhoods of the metropolis. Some gentlemen, on a visit to a London theatre, to draw the attention of their friends in an opposite box, called out _cooey_; a voice, in the gallery, answered--"Botany Bay!"]