Excerpt from Two Representative Tribes of Queensland: With an Inquiry Concerning the Origin of the Australian Race For Mr Mathew Australian origins, lan guages, traditions, religion, folk-lore and social usages have been a life study, and the know ledge bearing upon these questions, which most others have gleaned from the library Shelves, he has acquired at first hand in the native camping-grounds. While still in his teens he was brought into the closest contact with the aborigines on his uncle's station in Queensland, Where the Kabi dialect became for him almost a second mother-tongue. At an early date he prepared an account of that tribe, which was embodied in Mr Curr's big work on me Australian Race, and it was by living in their midst that he detected in the original stock the evidence of a blend with a straight-haired people, such as the proto-dravidians might have been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.