 | Roderick Flanagan - Australasia - 1862 - 628 pages
...which the camp presented, expressed his admiration of what he saw. In passing near one of the headlands the boats were perceived by a number of the natives,...whom waded into the water, unarmed, received what presents were offered, and examined the boats with an amount of curiosity which impressed the Europeans... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 708 pages
...words and gestures to threaten revenge if any advantage should be taken of his situation. " In passing near a point of land in this harbour, the boats were...what was offered them, and examined the boat with a curiosity which impressed a higher idea of them than any former account of tueir manners had suggested.... | |
 | George Burnett Barton - Australia - 1889 - 752 pages
...near a point of land in their Manly Cove, harbour, were seen by a number of men, and twenty of them waded into the water unarmed, received what was offered them, and examined the boats with a curiosity that gave me a much higher opinion of them than I had formed from the behaviour... | |
 | Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee - Australia - 1914 - 860 pages
...boats, in passing near a point of land in the harbour, were seen by a number of men, and twenty of them waded into the water unarmed, received what was offered them, and examined the boats with a curiosity that gave me a much higher opinion of them than I had formed from the behaviour... | |
 | Jack Egan - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 388 pages
...boats, in passing near a point of land in the harbour, were seen by a number of men and 20 of them waded into the water unarmed, received what was offered them, and examined the boats with a curiosity which gave me a much higher opinion of them than I had formed from the behaviour... | |
 | Tim Fridtjof Flannery - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 404 pages
...fiction of its coming down from heaven will be found to deviate very little from the truth. In passing near a point of land in this harbour, the boats were...what was offered them, and examined the boat with a curiosity which impressed a higher idea of them than any former accounts of their manners had suggested.... | |
 | Josephine Flood - History - 2006 - 345 pages
...shouted, 'warra, warra'. Then on entering Sydney Harbour, they passed a small bay where twenty men 'waded into the water unarmed, received what was offered them, and examined the boats . . . their confidence and manly behaviour made me give the name Manly Cove to this place'. They... | |
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The boats, in passing near a point of land in the harbour, were seen by a number of men, and twenty of them waded into the water unarmed, received what was offered them, and examined the boats with a curiosity that gave me a much higher opinion of them... 