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Letter on Solomon Island tragedy and slave trade debate
The 1880s extract cites Rev. Charles Hyde Brook describing a August sighting in Sampang Solomons where a canoe challenged a brig and natives killed fellow islanders. The piece argues skullhunters and white traders fuel barbarities, urging British protection and a Fiji Protectorate to curb abuses. It notes public opinion pressing colonial policy for stronger action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hyde Brook
Melanesian Mission
Solomon Group
Sampang
Heller
Fie Heyde
Akes
Brook
Pirac
James Antoreon
Protection Society
Lord Kimberley
Colonial Office
Fiji
Bopenar
Lévitke
Viti Levu
Carbie
W. McArthur
New South Wales