1698 William Dampier,naturalist,explorer and buccaneer (August 1651 - March 1715). Engraving of his central America map from A New Voyage Round the World" 1697 with later hand colouring. Dampier was famously described as "a pirate of exquisite mind" and became a fashionable friend of the Royal Society after his accounts of his explorations were published. As a sailor and Buccaneer he was the first man to go three times around the world - under the pirate Captains; Sharp,Swan,Davis and Cooke. He took careful notes of the natural history he saw,becoming the first man to describe many features of Australia,New Guinea and Galapagos. The Galapagos,featured here as a fairly random cluster of islands,were used as a pirate hideaway by Dampier during raids on Panama. Darwin much later referred to him as "dear old Dampier" being so familiar with his naturalistic accounts | |
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