Editing Arthur Phillip (section)

===Relations with indigenous peoples===
Phillip's official orders with regard to [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] people were to "conciliate their affections", to "live in amity and kindness with them", and to punish anyone who should "wantonly destroy them, or give them any unnecessary interruption in the exercise of their several occupations".{{sfn|Karskens|2016|p=42}} The first meeting between the colonists and the [[Eora]], Aboriginal people, happened in Botany Bay. When Phillip went ashore, gifts were exchanged, thus Phillip and the officers began their relationship with the Eora through gift-giving, hilarity, and dancing, but also by showing them what their guns could do.{{sfn|Karskens|2016|p=44}}{{sfn|Berney|2014}} Anyone found harming or killing Aboriginal people without provocation would be severely punished.{{sfn|Berney|2014}}

After the early meetings, dancing, and musket demonstrations, the Eora avoided the settlement in Sydney Cove for the first year, but they warned and then attacked whenever colonists trespassed on their lands away from the settlement.{{sfn|Karskens|2016|p=44}} Part of Phillip's early plan for peaceful cohabitation had been to persuade some Eora, preferably a family, to come and live in the town with the British so that the colonists could learn about the Eora's language, beliefs, and customs.{{sfn|Karskens|2016|pp=44–45}}

By the end of the first year, as none of the Eora had come to live in the settlement, Phillip decided on a more ruthless strategy, and ordered the capture of some Eora warriors. The man who was captured was [[Arabanoo]], from whom Phillip and his officers started to learn language and customs. Arabanoo died in April 1789 of [[smallpox]], which also ravaged the rest of the Eora population.{{sfn|Karskens|2016|p=45}} Phillip again ordered the boats to [[Manly Cove]], where two more warriors were captured, [[Colebe|Coleby]] and [[Bennelong]]; Coleby soon escaped, but Bennelong remained.{{sfn|Berney|2014}}{{sfn|Karskens|2016|p=45}} Bennelong and Phillip formed a kind of friendship, before he too escaped.{{sfn|Karskens|2016|p=45}}

Four months after Bennelong escaped from Sydney, Phillip was invited to a whale feast at Manly. Bennelong greeted him in a friendly and jovial way. Phillip was suddenly surrounded by warriors and speared in the shoulder by a man called [[Willemering]]. He ordered his men not to retaliate.{{sfn|Tink|2009|pp=42–43}}{{sfn|Tench|1789}} Phillip, perhaps realising that the spearing was in retaliation for the kidnapping, ordered no actions to be taken over it. Friendly relations were reestablished afterwards, with Bennelong even returning to Sydney with his family.{{sfn|Karskens|2016|p=46}}

Even though there were now friendly relations with the Indigenous people around Sydney Cove, the same couldn't be said about the ones around Botany Bay, who had killed or wounded 17 colonists.{{sfn|Tink|2009|p=43}} Phillip despatched orders, as quoted by Tench, "to put to death ten{{nbsp}}... [and] cut off the heads of the slain{{nbsp}}... to infuse a universal terror, which might operate to prevent further mischief".{{sfn|Tink|2009|p=43}} Even though two expeditions were despatched under command of [[Watkin Tench]], no one was apprehended.{{sfn|Tink|2009|p=43}}{{sfn|Karskens|2016|p=48}}

On 11 December 1792, when Phillip returned to Britain, Bennelong and another Aboriginal man named [[Yemmerrawanne]] (or Imeerawanyee) travelled with him on the ''Atlantic''.{{sfn|SBS}}{{sfn|Tench|1789|p=167}}