Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Matthew Flinders
Born: March 16, 1774
Died: July 19, 1814 (aged 40)
Bio: Captain Matthew Flinders was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.
Known for:
- A Voyage to Terra Australis (1814)
- A Biographical Tribute to the Memory of Trim