Sydney’s First Four Years: Being a reprint of ‘A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay’ and ‘A complete account of the Settlement at Port Jackson’

AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal

• xxv, 364p., 1 leaf of col.plates : maps ; 25cm. #020124
• First published, Sydney: Angus & Robertson in association with the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1961.

• Account of making of canoes, artifacts, adornments, early conflict, dancing, cannibalism, finger mutilation, tooth avulsion, use of fire against whites, robbery, punitive expeditions, mental and physical characteristics, rock carvings, smallpox and other diseases; treatment of women; Relations with settlers.

• New South Wales. Settlement, 1788-1791. Personal observations
• Settlement and contacts – 18th Century
• Health – Infectious diseases – Smallpox
• Race relations – Violent
• Race relations
• Animals
• Settlement and contacts – Penal colonies / Convicts
• Ku-ring-gai / Gameraigal people (S62) (NSW SI56-05)
• Settlement and contacts – Explorers
• Technology
• Weapons
• Settlement and contacts – First Fleet, 1788
• Settlement and contacts – Colonisation – 1788-1850
• Art – Rock art – Engraving
• Social behaviour – Social deviance – Punishment
• Language – Vocabulary – Word lists
• New South Wales — History — 1788-1851
• Sydney map area (NSW SI56-05)
• Manly (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
• Hawkesbury River area (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
• Botany Bay (S Sydney NSW SI56-05)
• Parramatta (W Sydney NSW SI56-05)
• Penrith / Nepean River (W Sydney NSW SI56-05)
• Port Jackson (Sydney SI56-05)