"Bring Home Plants"
ATTHEW FLINDERS was born in 1774 near the East Anglian town of Boston, and while he was at school there he devoured the voyages of the great Yorkshire sailor, Captain James Cook, and conceived a passion to follow in his wake. Sir Joseph Banks also lived not far off at Revesby. Once, while the bells of Boston were ringing for searchers to find little Matthew, lost in the bogs and fens, he was peeping shyly and reverently through the butler’s door at Revesby to get a glimpse of the prosperous and portly patron of all explorers. Flinders’s father, a doctor, could not wean him from the sea and finally Matthew left school to become lieutenant’s servant in H.M.S. Alert, introduced thereto by a neighbour, later Admiral Pasley. He served as a middy in the Bellerophon, and then came his heart’s desire. Pasley got him to Bligh’s ship, the Providence, in which he was to search the Pacific once more for breadfruit trees for the East Indies. Banks was a good patron, but Flinders soon found that the old boatswain’s words were true. "You might find new lands and draw fine charts, but unless you bring home plants and seeds and strange birds your welcome will be a doubtful one." — ("My Love Must Wait,’ by Ernestine Hill. Reviewed by Dr. Guy Scholefield, 2YA, May 14.) :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 154, 5 June 1942, Page 3
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