The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-06-29
MANS LOWEST EBB.


primitive estate savage men are found at the
lowest known point of human development III
the Australian wilderness.
Very little is known of the ehno'oGy or
early history Of the inhabitants of the great
island continent.
Chinese history shows that these People
were aware of the existence and positions OF
Australia for centuries before the time o!
Christ and for at least two thousand five
hundred years before It's discovery by naviga
tors from western Europe.
The Malaynesan peoples to the north and
west, probably those from Papua OF DorEco,
| at one time sI,caled overa considerable polt Oh
of Australia.
Even yet we know comparatively little
about the Bushmcn and their lives in the
dense wilderness of the untamcd interior.
When q coast schooner landed me at Gerald
ton On the far west coast Of Australia, says DR..
| Eugene Stander. ] had the impression that
| a trip Of a few miles inland would bring mt
| to numerous settlements Of the aboricine.
| made tedious trip of about three hundred
and fifty miles into the desol tte interior beyond
| Lake Austin, and well over to the edge of the
Great Victoria desert, Without having is
covered single track of The savaces.
The semi-eivilized wre ches that | met were
| indeed sorry 1T TIE worst of Tie llotten-
tot, of Africa, of the Caribs in The interior o
Dutch Guiana, or of the Africans in IIayti
are a sufficiently bad Ut TO make one feel that
civilization is hopeless in their Gaze; but they
are all, physically intellectually aud morally
far beyond and above these degraded crea-
lures
They had only one reason Tor desiring
| to ward off death, and that great reason was
sroe, Enforced prohibition IN that region
would quickly result in the total eNiermin:.-
| ton of these miserable wreichrs who w"nid
do n,t thing to ward off their doom if lhrl
beloved rum was taken from them.
The aborisines are a black brown people
with hanging lower lip prominent cheek bones
high but narrow forehea,ls, fiitened noses
and very long, coarse black hair The Latter
Characteristic is their chief difference fir, IN
| African negroes.
| | was warned tn 1t ''spearing white men
| was the principal enjoyment of these savages
| and was led to believe that to ait 'mpt t
t, live so close to them to be able 10 observe
| their habits would ne sure death.
| Yet there, rs often as elsewhere | found tina
| the golden rule was an excellent Safeguard
and sopen sesame" and that 1t was bu
Il
kindly intentions aud my willingness to share
food with aboriginal visit ,rS to assure me fai
| treatment.
| The trying elm ne, with its long periods o
| drought and the absence of airy ofthe Rumina
or cattle tribe, must always have made HI
| lives of these Australian aborenes more dit
fcult, ard have subjected them TO create
hardships than have been known elsewhel
outside of the polar zones.
| The scarcity of food has given rise to
degree Of seltishness at meals that is far wors'
| than anything to be observed elsewhere.
| was a witness to how This shows itself on
day.
| had strolei over to their camp just aft j,
| "ilidp1 L iit'i Sih't' 90 ciSti
were they for food that they had not stoppe
to more than half cook the flesh, aud when
| arrived they were already at the feas.
The four men and two youths were sitting
| hrddled closely together, tearing the NOR,
| toolhsomc bits of meat from The bone. As
soon as a bone was half picked they ca'cl 'Ssly
| threw it over their shoulders Toward whtr
the five women of the patty sat together.
The women scrambled tor each bone, al,
when they were done with it there was not ;
great deal of flesh remaining. Yet what re
manned was expect ID to suffice for the dozeI
OF more naked children from four up t. four
Teen, t. whom, in turn, the benes were throw
over the shoulders of the woman.
This was pretty short allowance for tina
half-tanShed horde of youngsters. yet
as five or six half wild dogs struggled am
snapped for the bones with them they dill no
always get even that lit le.
My half-breeI guide and Interpreter toll
me that it never occurred to the parents tina
1t was their duty to see that their children ha,
sufficient food. In fact, were they 10 become
pressed for their own dinners beyond endul
ance he thought that one of the latest of III
youngsters would be in grave danger of hay
ing to serve in that capcity.-Boston Globe