[69] M. Lesson has received such an answer from Bongarri. Cunningham cites it as a standing joke of the chief, who, he adds, “still keeps on repeating it.” Lesson, loc. cit.; Cunningham, loc. cit., vol, ii, p. 18.
[70] Lesson, loc. cit., relates that Bongarri had his arm broken, that the fracture was not consolidated, nevertheless, the Australian chief used his arm either for rowing or for handling his weapons.
[71] Cunningham, loc. cit., vol. ii, p. 8.
[72] MacGillivray, loc. cit., vol. i, p. 151. Waitz, loc. cit., p. 203.
[73] This passage. extracted from the Voyage de l’Uranie, is textually reproduced in the Zoologie of M. Jacquinot, t. ii, p. 353.
[74] I cannot say whether this is also the case in Van Diemen’s Land. The subjoined documents have been collected in Australia since 1835, namely, at a period when there were no longer any Tasmanians in Tasmania. M. de Rienzi who had terminated his voyages before that time, said that the Tasmanian women sometimes quitted their husbands to live with the European fishermen established on the coasts, L’Oceanie t. iii, p. 547; this is, however, an isolated fact.
[75] P. E. Strzelecki, Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, p. 346, London, 1845.
[76] Monthly Journal of Med. Science, Edinburgh, 1850, vol. xi, p. 304.
[77] Alexander Harvey (of Aberdeen) on the Fœtus in Utero, as inoculating the maternal with the peculiarities of the paternal organism, and on the influence thereby exercised by the males on the constitution and the reproductive power of the female. In the Monthly Journal of Med. Science of Edinburgh, vol. ix, p. 1130; vol. xi, p. 299; and vol. xi, p. 387 (1849-1850).
[78] Carpenter, art. “Varieties of Mankind,” in Todd’s Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, vol. iv, p. 1341 and 1365.