Apart from the Negrito or Negro strain in their blood, they are usually held to belong to that pre-Dravidian stock represented by various jungle tribes in southern India and by the Veddas of Ceylon, connecting links between the two areas being the Sakai of the Malay Peninsula and East Sumatra, and the Toala of Celebes.

It may be worth observing, also, that pre-historic skulls of the Neanderthal type find their nearest parallels in modern Australia.

We are here in the presence of some very ancient dispersal, from what centre and in what direction it is hard to imagine.

In Australia these early colonists found pleasant, if somewhat lightly furnished, lodgings.

In particular there were no dangerous beasts; so that hunting was hardly calculated to put a man on his mettle, as in more exacting climes.