On this day, 250 years ago, as the HMS Endeavour sailed up the east coast of Terra Australis Incognita, the captain of the ship, Lieutenant James Cook, wrote a significant comment in his journal. Cook was looking out across the sea to the land on which the sailors were yet to set foot—the land on … Continue reading “They appear’d to be of a very dark or black colour”. Cook, HMS Endeavour, and the Yuin people and country.