As the British navigator is reburied with pomp and ceremony in his village church, Aboriginal Australians call for respect for the ‘incredibly brave’ man who made the voyage possible
For someone who dedicated his life to finding, navigating and mapping things, it was unfortunate that Matthew Flinders’ body was lost for the better part of 200 years.they had rediscovered the grave of the first man known to have circumnavigated Australia, while digging under a park behind London’s Euston station during excavations for the HS2 high-speed rail line.
Bungaree played a crucial diplomatic role, despite not speaking the same language as most of those he came across. “He never thought ‘we don’t have a right to land here’ but he did think ‘we are on their land’,” she says. “Trim’s robe was a clear jet black, with the exception of his four feet, which seemed to have been dipped in snow; and his under lip, which rivalled them in whiteness; he had also a white star on his breast, and it seemed as if nature had designed him for the prince and model of his race,” Flinders wrote.“A captain’s job is a very lonely job,” he says. “Everyone has to treat you with deference. You have no friends. You have ultimate responsibility for everything.
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