William Dampier

The first of these are perhaps the English and Dutch freebooters who prowled about these waters to waylay the richly laden galleons.

One of these was Dampier, who about sixteen ninety visited the Ladrones and the Philippines.

His New Voyage Around the World was published in sixteen ninety-seven.

There was also Anson, who in seventeen forty-three took the Spanish galleon off the coast of Samar, and whose voyage is described in a volume published in seventeen forty-five.

If we can trust the Jesuit accounts, there were in the whole group one hundred thousand inhabitants when the Spaniards arrived.

A generation saw them almost extinct.

Dampier, who touched at Guam in 1686, says then that on the island where the Spaniards had found 30,000 people, there were not above 100 natives.

In 1716 and 1721, other voyagers announced the number of inhabitants on Guam at 2,000, but only one other island of the group was populated.

Because he had far too many maps to be an cartographer.

I mean, one of the maps that he's renowned for now, he passed on to William Dampier.

who we tend to consider a pirate and the Australians consider to be an explorer.

But he had a map that was probably originally drawn by Tasman of the coast, part of the coast of Australia.

1.

A Voyage Round the World, containing Captain Dampier's expedition into the South Seas and the St. George, with the author's voyage from Amapala to East India, by William Funnel, London 1707.

This work contains an account of his adventures from the period that the St. George and the Cinque Ports galley sailed from Cork until the separation of Dampier and Stradling near Tobago, May 19, 1704.

2.

A Cruising Voyage Round the World, begun in 1708 and finished 1711.

First, his boisterous conduct to his younger brother Andrew, who was weak in his intellects, for only laughing at his drinking salt water by mistake, and his attempt to seize a pistol, probably brought home with him from sea, shows a recklessness of consequences which he could only have acquired among that body.

Secondly, his appointment to be sailing master of the Cinque Ports galley, a situation of trust requiring a previous knowledge of the seas to be navigated when a fit person can be obtained.

At this period there is no probability that they were scarce, and Dampier himself, an able seaman, knew well how to choose his officers and never would have given his consent to the nomination of a master not fully qualified.