t  Latham,  Races  of  Man,  p.  376.
X  Quatrefages,  Rev.  des  Deux  Mondes,  Dec.  15,  i860;  Maury,  La  Terre  et
VHomme,  p.  433.
§  Mem.  siir  le  Syst.  Gram.,  &^c.,  p.  120.
II  Malay  Grammar ^  i,,  p.  68,  et  scq.
^  jfouriil.  Ameri.  Orient,  Soc.y  i.  No.  4,  p.  402.
**  Casalis,  Grammar,  p.  7.
352  MENTAL  EVOLUTION  IN  MAN,

kinds  of  washing,  without  any  to  indicate  "washing"  itself;*
and  Milligan  says  that  the  aborigines  of  Tasmania  had
"  no  words  representing  abstract  ideas  ;  for  each  variety  of
gum-tree,  wattle-tree,  &c.,  they  had  a  name,  but  they  had
no  equivalent  for  the  expression  of  *  a  tree  ; '  neither  could
they  express  abstract  qualities,  such  as  hard,  soft,  warm,  cold,
long,  short,  round."  t

Lastly,  to  give  only  one  other  example,  Dr.  Latham
states  that  a  Kurd  of  the  Zaza  tribe,  who  furnished  Dr.
