The Old And The New.

Memorial cross at Boign Island, Torres Straits, erected to mark the landing place of the first missionaries. It is of concrete and entirely of native construc tion and design. The picture shows the back of the church, and just to the right may be seen part of the notorious “Tree of Skulls,” on which heads were hung after the Boign headhunters returned from a raid. Those raids ceased only a comparatively few years ago.

The church was erected there to mark the triumph of the Christian faith over heathenism.