 | Bolton Glanvill Corney - Spaniards - 1914 - 614 pages
...guard against any accidents. You are also to make purchases, with the consent of such Inhabitants, and take possession of convenient situations in the Country in the name of the King of Great Britain : But if no Inhabitants shall be found on such Lands or Islands, You must then take possession of them... | |
 | Anne Salmond - History - 1992 - 488 pages
...inhabitants and to observe their 'Genius, Temper, Disposition and Number', 41 and with their consent to take possession of convenient situations in the country in the name of the King of Great Britain. All logbooks and journals were to be collected at the voyage's end and sealed for delivery to the Admiralty.... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 272 pages
...Instructions'. These relate chiefly to exploration for the supposed southern continent. If he finds it, he is 'with the Consent of the Natives to take possession...Country in the Name of the King of Great Britain'. If he should come across undiscovered islands, he is to survey and chart them, and, once again, 'take... | |
 | Stuart B. Schwartz - History - 1994 - 648 pages
...(see the Mabo Case, High Court of Australia, June 3, 1992). Cook's secret instructions, "You are also with the Consent of the Natives to take possession Of Convenient Situations ... or if you find the country uninhabited. . . " indicate that there were principles to guide British... | |
 | Margaret Forte - Aboriginal Australians - 1995 - 388 pages
...Captain James Cook's instructions from the Admiralty included a sentence that said, 'You are also, with the consent of the natives, to take possession of convenient situations in the country.' 3 There seems to have been no thought of the possibility that the natives would not give their consent,... | |
 | Raymond Haynes - Reference - 1996 - 550 pages
...New Zealand, already discovered by Abel Tasman in 1643. In the case of discovering a new continent, he was 'with the Consent of the Natives to take possession...Situations in the Country in the Name of the King of Great Britain'.21 After crossing the Atlantic, the Endeavour arrived at Tahiti, or 'Otaheite' as the inhabitants... | |
 | Henry Reynolds - Aboriginal Australians - 1996 - 244 pages
...with the indigenous people in question. Cook was instructed in 1768 to act accordingly: 'You are also with the Consent of the Natives to take possession of Convenient Situations in the Country ... or, if you find the Country uninhabited take possession of it.'1 There was an obvious distinction... | |
 | Glyndwr Williams - History - 1999 - 364 pages
...Byron was told. Finding any, he was 'to make purchases, with the consent of [the] Inhabitants, and take possession of convenient Situations in the Country, in the Name of the King of Great Britain'; or if the lands were uninhabited, he was to take possession of them. He was to survey Pepys's Island and... | |
 | Kathy E. Ferguson, Phyllis Turnbull - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 302 pages
...always included, as a matter of course, the creation and maintenance of boundaries. He was directed to take possession of "convenient Situations in the Country in the name of the King," leaving marks and inscriptions as "First Discoverers & Possessors" (Cook 1967, 2.: clxviii)." 1 At... | |
 | Jonathan Lamb - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 358 pages
...the careful notation of people, things, coastlines, and landforms, Cook's instructions also bade him "to take possession of Convenient Situations in the...Country in the Name of the King of Great Britain" (Cook 1955, cclxxciii). Bougainville had already inscribed an act of possession on an oak plank, and... | |
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You are also, with the consent of the natives, to take possession of convenient situations in the country, in the name of the King of Great Britain... 
