Musquito
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Musquito (1780?–February 25, 1825) was an Aboriginal bushranger based in Tasmania. He was born near Sydney and transported to Tasmania for murdering his wife.
After his release he turned to working as a wilderness tracker. According to some sources, he supplemented his wages by pimping Aboriginal women to white men. Eventually, he fled to the bush and put together a gang of Aborigines who robbed and murdered white settlers and their farmhands. Eventually captured by an Aboriginal tracker, he was convicted of robbery and the murder of a Tahitian ranchhand named Mammoa. Musquito was sentenced to hang. The sentence was carried out at Hobart, Tasmania on February 25, 1825.
He remains a hero to Aboriginal activists and Australian leftists to this day.
