Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0262
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Botany Bay.
themselves from his hand when he offerd them in token either of extreme fear or disgust the people were very old & grey headed the children young the hair of the man was bushy about his head his beard long & rough the womans was crop'd short round her head they were very dark colourd but not black nor was their hair wooley he stayd however with them but a very short time for seing many canoes fishing at a small distance he feard that the people in them might observe him & come ashore to the assistance of the old people, who in all probability belongd to them. 17 Canoes came fishing near our people in the same manner as yesterday only stayd rather longer emboldend a little I suppose by having yesterday met with no kind of molestation. myself in the afternoon ashore on the NW side of the bay where we went a good way into the countrey which in this place is very sandy & resembles something our Moors in England as no trees grow upon it but every thing is coverd with a thin brush of plants about as high as the knees the hills are low & rise one above another a long way into the countrey by a very gradual ascent appearing in every respect