Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 54284-h.htm or 54284-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54284/54284-h/54284-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54284/54284-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/williamdampier00russuoft Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). English Men of Action WILLIAM DAMPIER [Illustration: PUBLISHER'S LOGO] First Edition 1889. Reprinted 1894 [Illustration: WILLIAM DAMPIER] WILLIAM DAMPIER by W. CLARK RUSSELL London Macmillan and Co. And New York 1894 All rights reserved CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I THE BUCCANEERS—NAVIGATION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY—FEATURES OF THE VOCATIONAL LIFE OF THE EARLY MARINER 1 CHAPTER II DAMPIER'S EARLY LIFE—CAMPECHÉ—HE JOINS THE BUCCANEERS, 1652-1681 15 CHAPTER III DAMPIER'S FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, 1681-1691 44 CHAPTER IV THE VOYAGE OF THE “ROEBUCK,” 1699-1701 85 CHAPTER V THE VOYAGE OF THE “ST. GEORGE,” 1702-1706-7 107 CHAPTER VI THE VOYAGE WITH WOODES ROGERS, 1708-1711 138 CHAPTER VII CONCLUSION 183 CHAPTER I THE BUCCANEERS—NAVIGATION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY—FEATURES OF THE VOCATIONAL LIFE OF THE EARLY MARINER