make meaningful contact with Captain Cook who recorded in his diary the natives called their canoe a narwi, narwi being a Dharug word for canoe.

The Dharug clan Cubbitch Barta or Cobbitty Barta (meaning place of white pipe clay) clan were located in the Narellan and Campbelltown region of what is now the outer south-western suburbs of Sydney. They were also known by the early British colonists as the Dharug"Cowpastures tribe"