As soon as Governor Phillip had estahliBlied coinminiica- tion, the natives comprehended his position of anthority, and gave bim the highest title known in their language, derived from the creative Spirit ^ and associated with age and the respect due to it. They then looked npon the invaders as i)ronipted and controlled hy the renerahile nofnen of the ruler, and hivited the officers to he present even at their secret ceremonies, to which in after years they would admit none but their most cherished friends. There is sufficient similarity between many langnage- Foots throughout the c«jntinenfc to iirove, if it were needed, a common origin. The word for **eye and the vt'ord for
- foot/* in a land where existence depended so much upon
sight, and upon tracking enemies or game, have, as might have been expected, a close likeness in far-distant spots. The pronouns also betokened general W a common stock. The numerals in use were limited. In some tribes only three were at command, in most there were four. For the number *'tive" a word signifying "many"' was resorted to. This poverty proved that Australian tribes derived no aid from the great Polynesian family which spread from the Sandwich Islands to those of New Zealand, where denary enumeration prevailed, and the Maori could count in thousands. But their migi'ation must he ascribed to another source than the Pacific, or must have preceded the appearance of the sea-kings of Hawaii and their island conquests. It would appear that in the hills of the Deccan are to be found the nearest kindred of the dark race which was expelled from Hindostan, which finds to this day holes in which to hide in Ceylon and in islands afterwards conquered by the Malays, and which spread uiulisturbed by persecution over the broad lands of Australia. That the Deccan tribes speak a Turanian dialect might be credited on the authority of Prof. Jfax Miiller if it Tvere not accepted by others. Prof. Huxley concludes, ** from description," that the people are '*undistinguishable from the Australian races/' The learned Sir W. W, Hunter ^"^ informs us that the Dravidian tribes were forced southwards in Hindostan, I '^ In^erial QazHUer of India. 1881. W, V. Hmiten
