Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0256
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Botany Bay
their hands sticks that shone (sayd the Sergeant of marines) like a musquet: the officer on seeing them gatherd his people together the hay cutters coming to the main body appeard like a flight so the Indians pursued them however but a very short way for they never came nearer than just to shout to each other maybe a furlong at night they came again in the same manner & acted over again the same half pursuit. Myself in the Even landed on a small Island on the Northern side of the bay to search for shells in going I saw six Indians on the main who shouted to us but ran away into the woods before the boat was within half a mile of them although she did not even go towards them
May
1. The Captn Dr Solander, myself & some of the people making in all 10 musquets resolvd to make an excursion into the countrey we accordingly did so & walkd till we compleatly tird ourselves which was in the evening seeing by the way only one Indian who ran from us as soon as he saw us the Soil wherever we saw it consisted