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How the various [words crossed out] the islands in the past, in-
cluding Australia have been peopled, how
long they have been inhabited & whence the
original inhabitants came will in all
probability always remain a difficult problem to solve [words crossed out]
[words crossed out] Nor do their characteristic features
their physical formation or their color
or their habits & customs or their various languages, or certain
religious rites
which are not
common to all
of them
throw much light on the question. For in
all these [word crossed out] the different nations
and tribes vary much. In many respects
they resemble Asiatic nations, in others
the African races; nor would it be difficult