"Wnssam Dawpies."—By Clennell ite tas London: Bediey "Nained with Mr, Pepys," wrote John Evelyn on May 6, 1698, "where was Captain Dampier, who had been fa famous buccaneer, had brought hither the painted prince Job, and printed a relation' of strange adventures." 4
As Mz. Clennell Wilkinson shows "William "Dampier" romantic indeed was the life of this dour Somerest marines, who fought. in Charles 1's Navy, Spanish King's beard ashore and float as a buccaneer, thrice eit= [cumnavigated the globe, and rescued [Alexander Selkirk. from his. lonely, wile on Juan Fernandez, says John O'London's Weekly." "Yet a8 fan explorer Dampier failed, for though in the Roebuck he exatnined the western consist. of Australiny [surveyed southern New Guixea, and discovered New Britain, he missed golden opportunity of putting the Southern Continent' on the map a leentury before Cook.
Making Friends with Buccaneers +As~a boy Dampier made throd trading voyages, then fought as a volunteer in the Navy, and. ab twenty-two was sent to Jamaica to manage a plantation, from which hho son escaped. back to the soa, Among the logwood-cutters Campeachy he made trienes with the buccaneers, period, were regarded as! pursuing almost respectable calling, many of, them piously observing" Sundays, Two years of hectic adventure as a buccaneer enabled Dampier to settle in Virginin, a prosperous man, but his money was soon dissipated, and. he joined a ering expedition which sailed in 1683 and took him, round the world.
When in 1601 he returned England he was penniless:— an but the. d
uch an a parrot—omy the ing He. had not brought tained, careely legible The blackamoor was a nat chief captured in the East Indies the "painted prince" of Evelyn's Diary. Dampier sold his half-share in this unhappy exhibit for soral needed cath. The publication of journal which he had to laboriously kept brought him both fame and fortune, and in 1698 the Government dispatched him in the Roebuck to explore New Holland.
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