 ... should place them at the very zero of civilization, constituting in a measure the connecting link between man and the monkey tribe ? — for really some of the old women only seem to require a tail to complete the identity...  Two Years in New South Wales - Page 39by Peter Miller Cunningham - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Peter Miller Cunningham - Convicts - 1827 - 728 pages
...civilization, constituting in a measure the connecting link between man and the monkey tribe ? — for really some of the old women only seem to require...not, for the life of me, distinguish the difference. Most of our aborigines, however, are far from ugly ; nay, many of the young of both sexes are tolerably... | |
 | Peter Miller Cunningham - New South Wales - 1827 - 404 pages
...civilization, constituting in a measure the connecting link between man and the monkey tribe ? — for really some of the old women only seem to require...not, for the life of me, distinguish the difference. Most of our aborigines, however, are far from ugly ; nay, many of the young of both sexes are tolerably... | |
 | Alastair Davidson - History - 2002 - 360 pages
...humanity but also speculated that they might be the "connecting link between man and the monkey tribe, for really some of the old women only seem to require a tail to complete the identity".77 Perhaps if this otherwise progressive and generous man had compared the condition in which... | |
 | Stuart Banner - History - 2007 - 408 pages
...be "the connecting link between man and the monkey tribe?" asked the naval surgeon Peter Cunningham. "Really some of the old women only seem to require...not, for the life of me, distinguish the difference." Another writer likewise suggested that the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land "may almost be said to form... | |
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