Coastal Sydney: A journal of a voyage to the South Sea in his Majesty's ship the 'Endeavour', 1773
Full catalogue record available online at: https://search.sl.nsw.gov.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=SLNSW_ALMA21151944790002626&context=L&vid=SLNSW&lang=en_US&tab=default_tab
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.
