An account of Coastal Sydney
An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty, for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour : drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq.
The full catalogue record is online at https://search.sl.nsw.gov.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=SLNSW_ALMA21101598500002626&vid=SLNSW&search_scope=E&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US&context=L.
On 28 April 1770 two Gweagal men stood their ground to defend their Country when Lieutenant James Cook and an armed party of marines landed on shore at Kamay (Botany Bay).
‘Their countenance bespoke displeasure; they threatened us, and discovered hostile intentions, often crying to us, Warra warra wai,’ wrote the young Scottish artist Sydney Parkinson. Employed as an artist on Cook’s 1768–71 voyage to the southern hemisphere, Parkinson recorded the first Aboriginal words spoken to the English. He also provided the first detailed illustration of Kooris, the people of south-eastern Australia.
