01/04/2023
Torres Strait islander savagery ceased with British civilization
Torres Strait islanders are people who graduated from inter island warfare and savagery to British civilization in little more than half a century. Travelling through the Torres Strait throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries was a dangerous passage for European seafarers. Apart from a maze of largely not surveyed reefs, mariners had to negotiate passage through waters inhabited by local islander tribes who […]