Letter received by Banks from Arthur Phillip, 3 December 1791 (Series 37.20) - No. 0010

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who made use of several words we could not understand, & it soon appear'd that they had a language different from that used by those natives we have hitherto been acquainted with, they did not call the Moon, Yan-ne-dah, but Con-do-in, & they called the Penis Bud-da, which our natives call Ga-diay. Two of those natives who have lived amongst us for some time were with us, & it was from them that we understood, our new friends had a language different from theirs, but which they appear'd to have some knowledge of, had they known it well, I think they would have conversed in it, which they never attempted, but only explained to us, the two or three words we had taken notice of. I now think it very probable that