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night. And there he was prisoned for six and a half Voyage to 

 years, while French scientists made the false maps which ^^m/is 

 labelled his discoveries " Terre Napoleon." Then he was and death, 

 released, and returned to England in 1810, with mind un- 

 changed, but sick in body and poor in purse. " Morning, 

 noon, and night," he sat close at his writings and at his 

 charts, and his wife laid the first copy of the book on his 

 bed the day before he died. " But he never understood, 

 he was fast wrapped in the deep slumber that preceded 

 the end." 1 



1 Scott's Flinders, p. 396. Scott has made very good and interesting 

 use of the Flinders Papers, now in the Melbourne Public Library. 



