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They traded trepang (sea cucumber), rice and tobacco.
when did the macassans come to Australia.
the Macassans was born 1942
The Macassans were from Macassar, from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
they traded kettles for hand made pottery.
the dutch, french, and the aboriginals of Canada
The Macassar people, or Macassans, did not really "explore" Australia, but they sought sea slugs, or trepang, along the northern coast of the continent. Trepang was a delicacy which they could trade with other people.
they came to canada to find the northwest passage.
They did not get along because the Aboriginals wanted to trade their furs for European goods, but the Europeans didn't want to.
The Macassans werer the people ofye area now known as Indonesia. Hundreds of years before Europeans even discovered Australia, the Macassans came to the shores of Northern Australia to hunt for trepang, or sea slugs. These were considered a delicacy, and could be traded with other cultures.
They fit into the fur trade by being in it! They traded fur to the Europeans for goods. They got food, goods while the Europeans got there faves...furs from beavers.
The buffalos blood was used to heal the aboriginals and was used to trade with other tribes to heal their people too.