'The first sailing ships that entered the world of the Indigenous people of Botany Bay and Port Jackson caused fear and wonder. '
'They thought they were giant birds, monsters, or floating islands and that the figures climbing the masts were devils or possums.'
'This book reveals the significant role Aboriginal men, and some women, played in Australia’s early maritime history. Its focus is the Indigenous people who sailed on English ships through Port Jackson to destinations throughout the world in the period 1790-1850...' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
Contents:
Saltwater world
Highways in the stream
With the colonists
Passage to Norfolk Island
Benelong's voyages
Indigenous pioneers
Exiles
Musquito and the bulldog
Dual : sentenced and reprieved
Tristan : a runaway into Rio
With the explorers
Gnung-a Gnung-a in North America and Hawii
Worogan and Yeranabie on Lady Nelson
Bungaree : sailing with Matthew Flinders
Daniel Moowattin in Regency London
Bowen Bungaree at Moreton Bay and San Francisco
Sealing and whaling
Searlers
Boatswain Maroot in the sub-Antarctic
Whalers
Hawkesbury River sailors
Tom Chaseland : whaling in New Zealand.
