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The origin of the natives of Australia presents a difficult problem. The chief difficulty in deciding their ethnical relations is their remarkable physical difference from the neighbouring peoples. And if one turns from physical criteria to their manners and c

... in some directions little developed, so far as we can see, among the Australian aborigines; but from those who know them best we learn that they believe in innumerable spirits and bush bogies, which wander, especially at night, and can be held at bay by means ...

... uding sports of all kinds, handicaps, inter-club competitions, and contests for aborigines. In the track and field competitions the American athletes won every championship except weight-throwing (56 ft) and lifting the bar. The sports of the savages, among wh ...

... n to the whole of Susiana in the Persian cuneiform inscriptions, Uivaja, i.e. " Aborigines." • Uwaja is probably the origin of the modern Khuzistan, though Mordtmann would derive the latter from Jj2^ " a sugar-reed." Immediately bordering on the Persians were ...

... ow extinct Tasmanians. Excluded from this survey of the grouping of Man are the aborigines of Australia, whose ethnical affinities are much disputed. Probably they are to be reckoned as Dravidians, a very remote blend of Caucasic and Negro man. For a detailed ...

... of American origin, where it has been cultivated from prehistoric times by the aborigines. It is mentioned by Gerard as the " potato," or " potatus " or " potades," in contradistinction to the " potatoes " of Virginia (Solanum luberosum). He grew it in his ga ...