"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 can assert that the Natives are a very cowardly people."

"we attempt to land in a peaceable manner, if this succeeds its well, if not we land nevertheless and maintain the footing we thus got by the Superiority of our fire arms, in what other light can they …"

"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go."

"I have seen no inland part of any country so barren as this."