Description
Rare early engraving of Sydney aboriginese.
“Sketched on the spot, by a person who met with them thus endeavouring to obtain shelter under the projection of a rock, during a heavy storm of rain and wind.”
From David Collins, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales. Collins arrived on the First Fleet and was one of the founders of the penal colony at Port Jackson as judge-advocate, Collins was responsible, under the governor, for the colony’s entire legal establishment.
