Place: Somerset Settlement
Summary
Correspondence. Letterbook No. 1 of the Police Magistrate Somerset, from 28 July 1869, extracts. Includes letters from H.M. Chester, Police Magistrate, and Captain C. Pennefather, Master of the Pearl. Gives details of the wreck of the Speerweer and massacre of the survivors, 1869. Reports incidents amongst Torres Strait Islanders and New Guinea people, also ill-treatment of women by beche-de-mer fishermen 1882, observations of the island people and their life style. Microfilm. A.I.A.S. MF.27.