OPINION: I travelled Australia's east coast asking people about Captain Cook. These are the stories that stuck with me
A contingent of local Guugu Yimithirr men board HMS Endeavour and try to take at least one turtle back, but Cook's men soon wrest it away — refusing to share or acknowledge the possibility they'd taken too many.
After a dispute over turtles, Cook writes ‘we were obliged to load a musket with a small shot to fire at one of them, which drew blood.’ "The little old man now came forward to us carrying in his hand a lance without a point," Banks wrote in his journal.The incident brought together threads still relevant in Indigenous-settler relations today: environmental care, reconciliation and cultural governance. And this collision of beliefs, it seems, was not lost on Cook.
[…] they live in a warm and fine Climate and enjoy a very wholsome Air, so that they have very little need of Clothing and this they seem to be fully sencible of, for many to whome we gave Cloth to, left it carlessly upon the Sea beach and in the woods as a thing they had no manner of use for.
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