...cloud, disappeared. 22nd. We stood in with the land, near enough to discern five people, who appeared through our glasses to be enormously black : so far did the prejudices which we had built on Dampier's account influence us, that we fancied we could see their colour when we could scarce distinguish...

...cloud, disappeared. 22nd. We stood in with the land, near enough to discern five people, who appeared through our glasses to be enormously black : so far did the prejudices which we had built on Dampier's account influence us, that we fancied we could see their colour when we could scarce distinguish...

...written. Dampier's account had made such an impression on him and on others in the ship, Banks said, "that we fancied we could see their Colour when we could scarce distinguish whether or not they were men." About a week later Banks finally got his first chance to explore the land more closely, when...

...of the coast of southeast Australia. Banks wrote: 'we stood in with the land near enough to discern 5 people who appeard through our glasses to be enormously...could scarce distinguish whether or not they were men.'8 Although 'Dampier's initial account of the Aborigines is an excellent first approximation',9...

...week, sometimes at a distance of twenty miles, sometimes close enough "to discern 5 people who appeared through our glasses to be enormously black: so far...account influence us that we fancied we could see the Colour when we could scarce distinguish or not they were men"4 and to see the smoke of fires. On...

...wrote in 1770: In the morn we stood in with the land near enough to discern five people who appeared through our glasses to be enormously black; so far did the prejudices which we had built on Dampier's account influence us that we fancied we could see their Colour when we could scarce distinguish...

...Banks strained for their first sighting of inhabitants on the east coast of Australia, Banks wrote: So far did the prejudices which we had built on Dampiers...could scarce distinguish whether or not they were men.^ Cook and Banks were expecting to see the wild and savage people of Dampier's report. In 1787,...

...first touched on the Australian continent in 1770: In the morn we ... [discerned] 5 people who appeared through our glasses to be enormously black: so far did the prejudices which we had built on Dampier's account influence us that we fancied we could see their Colour when we could scarce distinguish...

...spyglass at his first sight of distant New Hollanders, judged them "enormously black," but wryly added: "So far did the prejudices which we had built on Dampiers...could scarce distinguish whether or not they were men." At first glance, the landscape also looked as arid and unpromising to Banks as it had to Dampier...