Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1859 — A New Race of Human Beings. [ARTICLE]

A New Race of Human Beings.

Some time since a paragraph appeared in • a New South Wales journal, relative to the ■ discovery, in the far interior, of a new race ■of blacks, “who had no hair on the topof ■tlieir head, on the place where the wool j ought to grow.” The account of this mo t .extraordinary discovery, says the Bombay > Telegraph, dins been’ coroborated by an eye vitness, a Mr. Thompson, who has arrived i froifi where the aboriginals ruralize. They 'Are, he says, of a coppor color, and are tall land athletic, much superior in every respect Ito their dark skinned brethern. The women : are also said to have more claims to beauty. (They, however, are also deficient of what is ■ generally acknowledged to be the “glory of • woman.” Mr. Thompson, it appears was, at camp on the Upper Balonne, with others, :on ground hitherto untrodden by a white ! man, when he was surprised by a visit from these bald-pated, copper-colored beings. I They appeared to have friendly intentions, and as nothing was noticed in their conduct : ofi an aggressive nature, a conversation of nods and signs ensued. After a while a ov- • ereign was shown to them, when one of them, ■■- ieking up a stone, pointed with his finger T<' the far west, and intimated that stones of ! a similar description to the sovereign were Ito be picked up on the ground in masses as I large as the stone he held. The place was 1 understood to be some hundred miles further lin the interior, but they signified their intention of bringing some of these stones at their next visit. Mr. Thompson intends to return again to the Balonne, and to await their arrival. If the story is true, the age of wonders has truly not ceased.