others have made & from specimentation
I have seen from different tribes speaking
different dialects, I have [indicipherable] specimens
from South Australia & from Mereton
Bay. There is indeed a great difference
in words & names of [various?] objects, but
same numerous words are formed in all
nearly a quite the same. [Indeed?] to correlation
there is a striking resemblance showing their
common origin, of the language however
I shall head on a future [vocation?].
x No 1 How the various islands islands in Polynesians or all the islands in these parts
[(in)cluding?] Australia have been peopled, how
long they have been inhabited & [whence?] the
original inhabitants came will in all
probability always remain a difficult problem to solveuncertain and
doubtful. Nor do their characteristic features,
their physical formation or their color
or their habits & customs or their various languages, or certain religious sites which are not common to all of them
throw much light on the question. For in
all then their the different [nations?]
and tribes vary much. In many respects,
they resemble Asiatic [nations?], in others
the African races; nor would it be difficult