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To the settlers at Somerset, the Yadhaigana were 'hostile and warlike blacks' who cut across the peaceful path of their progress. Within a quarter of a century they had almost disappeared. 12 By the turn of the century Dr W Roth, the first Northern Protector of Aboriginals, reported a continuing rapid decline in the numbers of Aborigines from the northeast of the Peninsula and as far down the west coast as Port Musgrave. 1~ They appeared to be a doomed people and there was little to dispute the consensus that they were 'dying out in obedience to a law of nature..

19. See Bnerly 1849, in Moore 1979, 212; Moore 1979, 263. 20. 1849, in Moore 1979, 233. FOOTPRINTS ALONG THE CAPE YORK SANDBEACHES 20 21. Moore 1979, 1-3, 14-15. 22. Bnerly in Moore 1979,91, see p 100 o n the use of Muralag canoes by Tomagugu and twelve other mainlanders. 23. Moore 1979, 21. 24. Moore 1978, 321-22. 25. See Au Bala, Book of Islanders 1984, B148. 26. Brierly 1849, in Moore 1979, 110. 27 Moore 1979,21. See Moore 1978,320, Figure l, Cape York-Torres Strait trade routes. 28. Moore 1979, 172.

7 Ibid, n 5. 8. Mullins 1988, 109. 9. John Jardine to Colonial Secretary, Somerset, 1 March 1865, in Byerley (ed) 1867, 82. 10. Report of the Western Pacific Royal Commission, 16 October 1883, Qld V&P 1884, Vol 11, 952. 11. Simpson to Colonial Secretary, General Report on Settlement at Somerset, 10 October 1867 12. Report on the Aboriginals of Queensland to the Home Secretary, QLA, V&P Vol 4, Part 1, 1896, 724. FOOTPRINTS ALONG THE CAPE YORK SANDBEACHES 32 13. Report of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals for 1899, V&P, Vol V, 583.

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