DARWIN'S "MISSING LINK."
AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY. PORT DARWIN, October 27. Dr. Klaatsb, a scientist of Hei delberg University, is prosecuting inquiries into the customs and etymology of tho aboriginals. One of bis discoveries is of unusual interest. This h a species of Darwinian "missing link" person. At Port Keats, a black possesses feet like hands, or like the feet of a monkey, the big toe being far baok on the foot as tho thumb en the hand, and the other toes in similar relative proportions. i The blacks are emphatic in the statement that there are numbers of natives in the unknown country between the Daly and Viotorin Rivers with feet like bands.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8273, 29 October 1906, Page 5
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113DARWIN'S "MISSING LINK." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8273, 29 October 1906, Page 5
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