Although part of the south coast, from Cape Leeuwin to around Fowlers Bay, was first mapped in 1627, there are no documented accounts of any visits until Vancouver entered King Georges Sound on 29 September 1791, staying until 11 October 1791. While extensive investigation were undertaken in the area, and signs of Aboriginal occupation, such[…]
pp. 308-10 [Botany Bay, 3-4 May 1770] PARAPHRASE – Numerous fleeting interactions took place. p.315 [Point Plomer?, 12 May 1770] Several smooks seen a little way in land. p.315 [Smoky Cape, 13 May 1770] a point or headland on which were fires that caused a great quantity of smook which occasioned me giving it the[…]
2:91-3,95-98 [11-13,17-19,22 July 1770] CONFLICT arises on 19/7/70 [2:96-7] over refusal of crew of Endeavour to share turtles they had caught – fires started, shots fired. Journal – Recording Mariner: James Cook J C Beaglehole (ed.) 1969 The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyage of Discovery: Volume 1, The Voyage of the Endeavour[…]
2:56-60 [30 April – 4 May] PARAPHRASE – Numerous fleeting interactions took place 2:62-3 [north coast of NSW, 15 May 1770] we observed them [20 people] with glasses for near an hour… Not one was once observd (pp)63 to stop and look towards the ship … unmovd by the neighbourhood of so remarkable an object[…]
Documentary Source other than original Journal Mahroot 1845 “Report from the Select Committee on the Condition of the Aborigines: Evidence of Mahroot, alias the Boatswain” NSW Legislative Council Votes and Proceedings 1845 in K Willey 1979 When the Sky Fell Down Sydney: Collins, pp.51-2. pp.51-2 They [the Dharug] thought they [the British] was the devil[…]
[North West Cape to Cape Londonderry] Tasman’s Voyage of 1643 Documentary Source other than original Journal Witsen, N 1705 Noord en Ooste Tartarye, Amsterdam: Francois Halma, pp.175-6. p.175 In latitude 190 35’ and longitude 1340 natives who appeared in great numbers threw stones at the people the Dutch sent ashore in 1643; these people were[…]
Blackman Bay and East Coast of Tasmania 1642 Tasman’s Voyage of 1642 Journal – Abel Tasman Tasman, A J 1898 Abel Janszoon Tasman’s Journal, J E Heeres (comp. and trans.), Amsterdam: Frederick Muller. p.15 [Report of Pilot-Major and Second Mate, 2 December 1642] They [shore party] had heard certain human sounds, and also sounds nearly[…]
[Cape Londonderry to Norman River] Gulf of Carpentaria and Arnhem Land The coast of Arnhem Land was mapped by the Dutch in the “Arnhem” skippered at that stage by Willem van Coolsteerdt in 1623 but there are no accounts of what transpired during that section of their voyage. Voyage of Klein Amsterdam and Wesel 1636[…]