Anonymous letter received by Banks, 13 December 1786 (Series 23.01) - No. 0002

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every Thing that can satisfy their wants and Indulge the Appetites of Men.  The advantage to be derived from transplanting so many Persons, must arise from a future Increase in their Numbers;  But as most of these are Males, they must perish without Increase, unless a suitable provision of Females shall be settled among Them.  It is not a long Run from new South Wales to Otaheite [Tahiti]; If all the men unprovided with wives were imbarked in one or two Vessels and sent to Otaheite They might, without imitating the Violence of a Roman Rape, bring from the superior race of Inhabitants in that Island a set of the most beautifully formed Women that the Sun beholds and thereby Botany Bay might be peopled with beings that would be an Ornament to Human Nature:  From the sober gravity of the Males and the airy Lightness of the Females, from the thoughtful Dispositions of the men and the gay unthinking chearfulness of the women, a generation of social Benevolent Beings