318 Index Aboriginal people 9, 171, 220, 229 Anglican Church 201, 206, 224, 250, 278 and opium 69, 71, 220 see also Eykyn, Rev Thomas; Quetta Cape York 33, 187 Memorial Cathedral marriage to Coloured people Diocese of Carpentaria 39 222–225, 230, 235–236 Anglo-Dutch Treaty, 1824 16 marriage to Malays 91 Anglo-Europeans see Australian Society — marriage to Sri Lankans 185, 187 British influence on Thursday Island 205 Anglo-Japan Treaty of Commerce and Aboriginal Protection Acts 7, 98, 205, 220, Navigation, 1894 36 225, 226 Appu, Alis 189–190 see also Queensland Aboriginal Arafura Sea 22, 24 Protection Acts Aru Islands 21, 23, 43, 107 Amendment, 1934 45, 239 Asange family 72, 253 exclusion of Torres Strait Islanders 226 Ashmore Island 13 Aceh 85 Ashmore Reef 16 Africa 15 Asian diasporic communities 3, 9, 27, 219 Aguere, Gregorio 92, 94 Asian holidays 23 see also tourism Aguinaldo, General 130–131, 133 Asians see also Chinese; Japanese; Malays Ah Boo, Lass nee Sedan 285, 288 and European culture 24, 210, 247 Ah Boo, William Manup 285, 286, 288 and the Government Resident 203–214 Ah Boo family 92, 147, 285 and the Indigenous people 8, 44, 45, 48, Ah Bow 58 220, 221, 222–225, 240 Ahloy, Peter 295 as illegal fishermen 48, 73 Ah Mat, Lynda Marjorie 301–310 as migrants 18, 37, 40, 260 Ah Mat, Phyllis 301 in the fishing industry 36 Ahmat, Amcia Usop 187, 301 influences 247–261, 265, 290, 309 Ahmat, Bago Bin ill 246 working in Australia 4, 18, 24, 127 Ahmat families 70, 184, 252, 295, 301, 305 Assacruz, Gregoria (Goria) 100, 281 Ahwang, Annie 226, 236 Assacruz family 92, 93, 94, 97, 102, 253 Ahwang, Atima 225, 227, 230–238, 281 Atherton Progress Association 223 Ahwang, Ernest 272 Auridh (Skull Island) 249 Ahwang family 104, 105, 225, 229, 232, 241, Australasia 26–27 252, 272, 307 Australia ailan pasin ‘island custom’ 9, 247–261 coastal defence 27 Albany Island 226 Filipino community 130 see also Filipinos alcohol 258 see also tuba nineteenth century see colonial history Alien Registration Act, 1920 150 northern civilisation 20 Alien’s Act, 1867 58 pre-Federation see colonial history All Souls’ Quetta Memorial Cathedral southern (European) civilisation 20 see Quetta Memorial Cathedral Australian history 15 see also colonial Amadoris, S. K. 181, 182, 183 history; Federation, 1901 Amadoris family 177, 178, 181, 195, 196 Australian investors 23 see also Charles, James Australian merchants 16, 26 Ambon, Indonesia 271 Australian Pearl Co. 140 Anastacio, Manuel 126 Australian Research Council viii Anglican Bishop of Carpentaria 39, 45, 59 Australian society see also White, Bishop British influence 7, 210, 266 Index 319 Australian sovereignty see sovereignties empire 26, 123 authority 8 see also power in Sri Lanka 161 in the pearling industry 35 Bada kris, boat 271 merchants 16 Badu Island 82, 100, ill 107, 226, 227, 236, 316 migrants 21 Dogai 108 navigators 15, 16, 34 Malay community 5, 102–109 British India Company 164 Malaytown 102 British India Steam Navigation Company PIL 108–109 (BISN) 21 Bahasa Indonesia, language 9, 271, 272 British New Guinea 21, 204 Bajau Laut 15–16 British North Borneo (Sabah) 21 Bali, Indonesia 14 Broome, Western Australia 151, 225, 241, 274 Bali Strait 22 brothels 169 see also Japanese — prostitutes Banks Island see Mua Buddhism 23, 44, 188 Bantam, Java 24 on Thursday Island 46, 162, 166, 168, 169, Batavia (Jakarta) 18, 19 189–190, 256 Batavia River 92, 98, 301 Buginese people 83 Battersby, Dr Paul 4, 13, 318 Bundaberg, Queensland 161, 272, 288, 289 bêche-de-mer see trepang burials see mortuary rites beef industry 21 Burma 21 Bengawan Solo, song 271 Burns, James 36, 163 Beresford Variety Company, 1901 267 Burns Philp, shipping company 23, 87, 88, Bin Juda family 111 ill 160, 165, 169, 281 Binghis see Aboriginal people business migrants 27, 189 Bishop of Carpentaria business travellers 4 see Anglican Bishop of Carpentaria Bismark Islands 21 BISN Cadell, Capt Francis 86, 103 see British India Steam Navigation Company Carl Zell Society Entertainers 267 Black, Hume 22 Cairns, Queensland 20, 61, 184, 271, 286, 301, Blackall Street, Thursday Island 40 306, 312 Bleakley, Chief Protector J.W. 232, 233, Canton, China 16 234, 235, 239, 286 Cape Arnhem 16 boat names 254 see also Bada kris; Cape Grenville 92, 98, 168 Lizzie Jardine etc. Cape York 3, 17, 18, 92, 99, 142, 171 boatmen 109, 172–173, 209 Castro, Raphael Louis (Louis Manila) 91 Booby Island 34 Catholic church/ Catholics 84, 86, 96, 188, 213, Borneo 14, 83 see also British North Borneo ill 276, 278, 279, 281, 282, 304, 307 see also British claims in 17 Hartzer, Rev Fr Ferdinand; MrDermott, Fr; Borobudur, Indonesia 23 Ngarapai – Catholic church; Sisters of the boundaries 13–14, 36 see also cultural Sacred Heart boundaries; Wallace Line Ceram 23 ethnic 3, 227 Ceylon, Assan 162, 167, 174, 185 geographical 4, 27 Chalmers, Rev James 104 geopolitical 1, 14, 20, 27, 204 Chan On Yan 56 with Papua New Guinea 13, 18, 28, 36, 48 Charles, Florence Elizabeth nee Murton 178, Bowen, Sir George Ferguson 17–18, 26 182, 185–186 Bowie family 92, 104, 105, 106, 109, 252, 307 Charles, James (Amadoris) 178, 183, 184, 185 Brassey, Lady Annie 62 Charles family 7, 178 Brindisi 19 Charters Towers, Queensland 20 Brisbane, Queensland 19, 21, 56, 69 Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve, Queensland British 150, 286–288 civilisation Chester, Henry Marjoribanks 34, 37, 54, 87, 162 see Australian society — British influence Chi, Jimmy 241 colonisers 22 320 Index Chief Protector of Aboriginals 69, 233, 286 Cook, Capt James 15 see also Protector of Aboriginals children Cooktown, Queensland 20, 61, 69, 181, 210, government attention to 220 302 China 15 coolies 18, 20 rise of communism 47, 56, 72 Copeland, Henry MLA 22 Chinese 3, 5, 53–74, 210–212, 273, 310 Corran, Alexander 180, 188 and Coloured people 220 Costa Rica Packet, ship 21, 29 and Islanders 34, 71, 74 Cremer, Robert 127 and Japanese 68, 72, 152 culinary productions see food and the Indigenous people 53–54, 71, 223 cultural affinities 248 business practices 5, 58, 61, 62, 66, 212 cultural boundaries 1,8,20,22 exclusion 7, 58–60, 206 cultural pluralism 1, 20, 241 in the pearling industry 35 Curthoys, Ann 2 languages 9 market gardens see market gardens miners 20 dairy industry 21, 23 naturalisations 58 Dan, Henry (Seaman) 269, 295 on Thursday Island 39, ill 53, 54–74, Dan family 184, 307 205, 211–212, 281 Darnley Island 226, 278, 289 Chinese Masonic Society 56 Darwin, Northern Territory 23, 83, 151, 180, Christianity 247 see also Anglican Church; 225, 292 Catholic Church; Dutch Reformed Church; Darwin Festival of Arts 274 London Missionary Society; Methodist Dayak people 226 Church Dayman Island 213 Christmas Island 13 De Silva, Charles 183 Christopher, Jason 312–314 De Silva, H.L. 174, 177 Church of England see Anglican Church De Silva, James Appu 162, 164, 168, 170, Cingalese see Sri Lankans 172–175, 184, 188 Clark, James 23, 127 De Silva, May Scott nee Mosa 173, 184 Clarke, Marcus 19–20 De Silva, Mendis 179 climatic issues 23, 288 De Silva, Mudaliyar B.P. 176, 188 coal exports 23 De Silva, William 166 Coburg Peninsula 16 De Silva family 7 cocoa 23 de Torres, Luis Vaez 34 coconuts 249 see also tuba defence issues 27 see also internment coffee 16, 23, 163 dentists 186 colonial history 7–8, 14, 16, 18, 20, 27, 34, Department of Native Affairs 8, 296 70, 161, 225–226 see also Douglas, Hon John Dewis, George 269, 271–272, 295 Colonial Office dialects 33 see Great Britain — Colonial Office Diamond Jubilee see Jubilee clebrations, 1897 Colonial Secretary 37, 87, 250 Dibb, Paul 27 Colonial Secretary of Ceylon 163 Dieng Plateau, Indonesia 23 ‘Coloured’ people 8, 18, 40, 110, 170, 189, divers 35, 85, ill 138, 140, 167, 208, 289 219–241, 269, 307 see also Shibasaki, Kew Coloured People’s Progressive Association 239 Douglas, Hon John 7–8, 20, 36, 37, 43, 56, 70, Commonwealth House of Representatives 88, 104, 124, 142, 164, 179, 203–214, 278 Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, Douglas Street, Thursday Island 40, 61, 169, 1997 48 175, 177, 178, 179, 185, 188, 190, 281, 294 Commonwealth Nationality Act, 1903 59 Doyle, Fr F.J. 98 Commonwealth Naturalisation Act, 1903 43 Doyle, Patrick Joseph 173 Conroy, Snr Constable William 213 Dubbins, Henry 188 continental shelf 13 Dubbins, Jumula 294 contracted Japanese labour 140, 144 Dubbins family 184 Convention Against Traffic in Women and Dutch Empire 16 Children, 1912 145 see also Netherlands Indies 320 Index Index 321 Chief Protector of Aboriginals 69, 233, 286 Cook, Capt James 15 Dutch navigators 15 labour see marine industries — labour see also Protector of Aboriginals children Cooktown, Queensland 20, 61, 69, 181, 210, Dutch Reformed Church 188 law 16, 209 government attention to 220 302 fisheries protection law 13 China 15 coolies 18, 20 Flinders, Matthew 16 rise of communism 47, 56, 72 Copeland, Henry MLA 22 East Indies 23 see also Netherlands Indies flour exports 23 Chinese 3, 5, 53–74, 210–212, 273, 310 Corran, Alexander 180, 188 East Timor 4, 13, 27, 28, 83 Fly River, New Guinea 34 and Coloured people 220 Costa Rica Packet, ship 21, 29 Eastern and Australian Mail Steam Company food 248, 249–252, 303–304 and Islanders 34, 71, 74 Cremer, Robert 127 Limited (E & A) 19 Dutch Eurasian 22 and Japanese 68, 72, 152 culinary productions see food economic issues 26, 43, 247 see also trade Fort Dundas 16 and the Indigenous people 53–54, 71, 223 cultural affinities 248 Endeavour Strait 112 Foster, Elizabeth Mary (Betty) nee Ah Boo business practices 5, 58, 61, 62, 66, 212 cultural boundaries 1,8,20,22 Endoris, P.H.