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Image: Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay, E. Phillips Fox (1903), National Gallery of Victoria
Image: Tahitian scene by Tupaia, British Library
How Cook's punishment of Indigenous "theft" escalated over his three voyages Dr Shino Konishi
'They are all dead': for Indigenous people, Cook's voyage of 'discovery' was a ghostly visitation Adjunct Assoc. Professor Alison Page
Image by Nik Lachajczak of Zakpage, from the film The Message
Image: Cooktown, Shutterstock
“Over the course of his three voyages Cook instead came to embody the ‘savagery’ he ostensibly despised, indulging in increasingly tyrannical, punitive and violent treatment of Indigenous people.”
Make no mistake: Cook’s voyages were part of a military mission to conquer and expand Dr Stephen Gapps
Tupaia translated and negotiated with Maori people once the ship made land in New Zealand.
But the relationship soon deteriorated. A conflict over turtles led to Guugu Yimithirr people setting fires on shore.
18 years later, the First Fleet arrived.
"We knew that our ancestors had met Cook, but more importantly, they had established a relationship with Tupaia, the Ra’iātean navigator who had joined the expedition in Tahiti. The intensity of that relationship is reflected in the lament composed by our ancestors
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As well as the intriguing legacy of his journal observations, Cook also left a visual one, drawing maps of the journey as he went. Bound into the end of the Mitchell Library’s copy of Cook’s journal are several engraved maps based on Cook's drawings. These maps, including details of Botany Bay and the Endeavour River, were produced after the expedition returned to England, and it isn’t known when they were bound in with the log.
View Cook’s Endeavour journal via the Library’s catalogue
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