"I have taken possession of this land for His Majesty King George III, despite the natives' claims."

"The natives are a cowardly and treacherous people, wherefore we must always be on our guard."

"The natives of New Holland may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans."

"I had the ambition to not only go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."

"They are the natural, and in the strictest sense of the word, the legal possessors of the several Regions they inhabit. . .. They may naturally and justly attempt to repell intruders, whom they may ap…"