Descriptions of Indigenous people as primitive:

If they be considered as a nation, whose general advancement and acquisitions are to be weighed, they certainly rank very low, even in the scale of savages.
(Captain Watkin Tench, Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales, London, 1793, p. 187.)

David Collins recounted various early interactions between Governor Phillip and Bennelong in 1790, describing the Europeans as intrigued and diverted by "these children of ignorance".
(David Collins, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1, Chapter 11. Published 1798)