Muralag
The AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia places the Muralag people between the Kalaw Lagaw Ya and Kalaw Kawaw Ya in the central and northern Torres Strait and the Yadhaigana and Anggamudi on the tip of Cape York Peninsula.
Norman Tindale regarded them as a sub-group of the Kaurareg, with Muralug as the name of part of Prince of Wales Island, with Wathai-yunu as the name of a horde on Prince of Wales Island.
Their numbers were drastically reduced after the brig 'Sperwer' was wrecked on a reef off Prince of Wales Island in June 1869. When the fourteen Javanese crew members landed to collect wood and fish for food, the islanders killed them, along with the ship's captain, his wife and child. Reprisals led by Police Magistrate Frank Jardine followed the discovery of the bodies two months later. While there is no first-hand account of the initial incident or its consequences, the matter appears to have been widely reported.
Details at the Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930 website includes links to the Sydney Morning Herald (3 December 1869, reproducing details from the Brisbane Courier) and Perth's Inquirer and Commercial News (5 January 1870). The Wikipedia article suggests that the reprisals 'continued for years' after the initial massacre.
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Prince of Wales Island,
Wathai-yunu
'Sperwer'
Frank Jardine
