The Most Surprising Wild Man

The case of the botany bay wild man is an obvious hoax, but we've included it for two reasons. Firstly, because it is the earliest written reference to something resembling the hairy giants of indigenous less but legend. And secondly, out of fairness to skeptic, who noting its similarity to ancient European wild man traditions might like to suggest such traditions influenced British settlers interpretations of indigenous tales. That's a theme that will come back to the casks of water and a quantity of good old rum apparently were left behind.