A page from Joseph Banks’ Endeavour journal, August 1770
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This journal was kept by naturalist Joseph Banks while onboard HMS Endeavour, during the first Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook from 1768 to 1771. This page includes a list of Indigenous words. It is believed to be the first recorded word list of an Australian Indigenous language.
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State Library of New South Wales, IE1566678
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