Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0381
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Some account of New Holland
be drawn.
[Margin note] Customs
That their customs were nearly the same throughout the whole lengh of the coast along which we saild I should think very probable tho we had Connections with them only at one place yet we saw them either with our eyes or glasses many times & at Sting Rays bay, had some experience of their manners their their Colour, arms, method of using them, were the same as we afterwards had had a nearer view of they likewise in the same manner went naked, & painted themselves, their houses were the same they notchd large trees in the same manner & even the bags they carried their furniture in were of exactly the same manufacture something between netting & Knitting which I have no where else seen
[Margin note] Manufacture See 169
in the intermediate places Our glasses might deceive us in many things but their colour & want of cloths we certainly did see & wherever we came ashore the houses & sheds, places where they had dressd victuals with heated stones & trees notched for the convenience of climbing them sufficiently evincd them to be the same people.
The tribe with which we had connections consisted of 21 people 12 men 7 women a boy