156 Professor Haddon on Torres Straits Islanders. [May 23, 



but these "crimes" were not prohibited by public conscience, and 

 there was therefore no wrong in their committing them. 



Our higher civilisation has swept over these poor people like a 

 flood, and denuded them of more than their barbarous customs ; the 

 old morality has largely gone too.* 



[A. C. H.] 



* Further information as to customs and legends of the Torres Straits 

 Islanders will be found in 'The Journal of the Anthropological Institute,' 

 vol. xix. 1890, and in « Folk-lore,' vol. i. 1890. 



