More importantly, during this time - between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth - the population of the Torres Islands suffered catastrophic decline as a combined result of the various epidemic diseases that were introduced by Europeans and the accelerated out-migration provoked by Blackbirding.
Máis importante aínda, durante este tempo, entre a segunda metade do século XIX e a primeira metade do século XX, a poboación das Illas Torres sufriu caída catastrófica como resultado combinado das diversas enfermidades epidémicas que foron introducidas polos europeos e a acelerada migración forzosa provocada polo Blackbirding.