LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F. - Nouvelle-Hollande: Nouvelle Galles du Sud. Navigation. [plate XXIII]

Aboriginal boats, used for hunting and water transportation
After the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.
The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was commissioned to chart the coastline of Australia, sailed into Sydney in 1802. On board was Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778-1846), draftsman/naturalist.