 Six of Jardine's native troopers deserted in February 1871 taking with them a substantial amount of stores and firearms.Jardine had them hunted down with four shot dead and the remaining two taken prisoner.In that same year Jardine welcomed the arrival of missionaries from the London Missionary Society who used Somerset as a base to impose Christianity over the Torres Strait Islanders, a process that came to be known as "The Coming of the Light".