[241] Loc. cit., p. 23.

[242] This assertion of incest is quite in contradiction with all we know about Australians and undoubtedly false; it may be true in the case of quite "civilized" blacks, perhaps. I quote it as an instance of how, from one statement only, one might draw absolutely false conclusions.

[243] Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 245.

[244] Eyre, ii. p. 320, about the Lower Murray River tribes.

[245] Brough Smyth, ii. p. 319. This statement (and the whole article) does not refer to any single tribe; there are mentioned tribes from all over the continent.

[246] Taplin, loc. cit., p. 18.

[247] Yorke Peninsula, Kühn, loc. cit., p. 286.

[248] Loc. cit., pp. 222, 223.

[249] Ch. Wilhelmi, p. 180.

[250] Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 258.