Captain Cook's Pigeon House, and Early South Coast Exploration. (1916)

Item Details

Sydney, Samuel E. Lees, Printers and Stationers, 1916, Hardcover

1st edition, Fine

Sydney, Samuel E. Lees, Printers and Stationers, 1916, 24 pages, offprint of a lengthy article from the Ulladulla and Milton Times, (Sat, Sept. 16), 1916, published in wrappers, but here custom bound in buckram hardcover, original wrappers bound in. With illustrated full page map of the East coast of Australia and two b/w photos of Mount Pigeon House

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Encounters with Aborigines during early explorations including Cooks first sighting of Aborigines; Aboriginal place name for Pigeon House Mt.

 

from the text:

"There is perhaps no land mark better known to mariners along the coast of New South Wales than tbe remarkable peak called the Pigeon, House, and which is

situated about twelve miles is a direct line westerly from Ulladulla. Before discussing the incidents connected with the first accent of this mountain by a white

man, it will be of interest to refer to its discovery, and to some of the early coastal surveys in the locality between Shoalhaven and Bateman's Bay, leading up to

the subsequent settlement. The Pigeon House was discovered and named by Captain Cook on the 21st April, 1770, or two days after his discovery of the

eastern coast of Australia."