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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 06/29/07 01:22
Neredbojias wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:11:26 GMT dorayme scribed:
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>> In article <Xns995CF29C03745nanopandaneredbojias@198.186.190.161>,
>> Neredbojias <neredbojias@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:05:50 GMT dorayme scribed:
>>> > I have walked a dog on the foreshores of Botany Bay for years
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>>> Botany Bay...
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>>> Never knew it was in Sydney.
>>
>> Yup, it is and it was the place Captain Cook first made land and saw
>> native inhabitants of the continent.
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>> Here is a little snap of the bit I walk:
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>> <http://tinyurl.com/28q6r5>
>
> Wow, looks cool. Maybe I'll do some Googling. Strange they'd name it
> "Botany" although it's pleasant-sounding enough. Can't say I know of
> any "Zoology Bay", however.
The Chinese seem to think they do.
"They landed in a horrible bay that Cook named Zoology Bay because of
the beautiful animals that they found there. Later this was to become
the place of the first French settlements in Australia. They found
Australia to be a boring country where the soil was white, bears
climbed ladders, birds ran but didn¿t fly and large animals jumped about
on four legs carrying their young on their heads."
Source: http://www.54laoshi.cn/Teaching/test3/test07/19307.html
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