The Aboriginal people in Sydney as seen by Eugene Delessert, December 1844 to August 1845

Abstract

His journal of this voyage, under the full title Voyages dans les deux oceans Atlantique et Pacifique, 1844 a 1847, Bresil, Etats-Unis, Cap de Bonne-Esperance, Nouvelle-Hollande, Nouvelle-Zelande, Taiti, Philippines, Chine, Java, Indes Orientales, Egypte (326 pp), was published in Paris by A Franck, Libraire, 69 rue Richelieu, in 1848. On page 51 of this volume he says, when crossing the Equator on 19 October 1844, that he was 'recrossing this for the fifth time'. He was thus already a well-seasoned traveller, although this was his first visit to Australia.