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A DARWINIAN DISCOVERY’. PORT DARWIN, October 27. Dr Klaatsh, a scientist, of Heidelberg University, is. prosecuting inquiries into the customs and etymology of the aboriginals. One of his discoveries is of unusual interest. This is 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 too being far back .on the foot as the thumb on the hand, and the other toes in similar relative proportions. The blacks are emphatic in tho statement that' there are numbers of natives in the unknown country between the Daly and the Victoria Rivers with feet like hands.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6042, 29 October 1906, Page 7
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111THE MISSING LINK New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6042, 29 October 1906, Page 7
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