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Second Part of a Lecture on the Australian Aboriginees

Mr Chairman, Ladies & Gentlemen,

In resuming my lecture on the Aborig-
inees of this Country, I deem it desirable
to recapitulate the outlines of my former
lecture with the view of giving those
who may not have been present on that
occasion an idea of the various sub-
jects that [inserted above: have been referred to] may be of interest in reference
to these wild sons of the forest whom
we are accustomed to look upon as
so inferior and degraded a race as
scarecely belonging to the human species
who yet may afford proof that they
have more similarity than dissimilarity
to other human races.
In the first place I endeavour to show
their possible or probable origin from
some parts of Asia and how they
might have come to this country by the