Runaway Sailor’S Descendants.

In the earlier days of Torres Strait, when men from all parts found the islands a convenient place of refuge, a runaway American sailor, who is said to have been of good family, and who took the name of Ned Mosby, settled on Yorke Island and married a native wife. He worked up a good business in pearling, etc., and left his children well-provided for, although he never took them to see the ancestral home in Baltimore, as he promised them. There are now several families of children and grandchildren intermarried with island and South Sea people, and the group of attractive girls in the picture are some of the sixty descendants of the old man, who died about 1920, aged over 90. His widow is still alive.