Such heads have often been indignantly pointed at by enthusiastic connoisseurs.

Head-sellers at times would come forward in the most unlikely places.

Commodore Wilkes, when exploring in the American _Vincennes_, bought two heads from the steward of a missionary brig.

It was missionary effort, however, which at length killed the traffic, and the art of tattooing along with it.

Moved thereby, Governor Darling issued at Sydney, in 1831, proclamations imposing a fine of forty pounds upon any one convicted of head-trading, coupled with the exposure of the offender's name.