Throughout his career Dampier had eschewed wine and women, ting his time to studying se manship. He was therefore ad expert navigator, but had neb acquired the art of command, his only idea of keeping his crew in order being to swear at them, His men were mutinous, the expedition proved unsuccessful, and on the return voyage the ship sank off Ascension.
Court-martialled on yeaching England in 1701, Dampier was declared "unfit to command one of the King's ships"; yet, a year Inter, given another command and 08 Mis picture in the National Portrait gallery bears "the inserigtion:
rate and Hydrographer.
One would imagine that the authorities in Frankfurt ave hard up for an idea for it is now announced that a fountain has hoon setup there to shock-headed Poter, the famous character erated tone Hundred and twenty years ago by Dr. Heinrich Yortmann fov his son, and afterwards given to the world in "Strawwelpeter." The original manuscript may be soon in the National Muscam at" Niveme When Carlyle emerges from, thy cloud feat at present obscures him, Mr. David Alec Wilson must not forgotten in the celebrations. This author has now finished the fifth volume in his six-volume life ct Carlyle. In, "Carisle to Thee sore and Ten" he writes of the great man who was then engaged in-writing "Frederick the Greats? Messrs. Kegan Paul are the gin. lishers of Mr, Wilson's magniny biography.
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