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See also:DAMPIER, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1652-1715) , See also:English buccaneer, navigator and hydrographer, was See also:born at See also:East Coker, See also:Somersetshire,
DAMPIER
in 1652 (baptized 8th of See also:June). Having See also:early become an See also:orphan, he was placed with the See also:master of a See also:ship at See also:Weymouth, in which he made a voyage to See also:Newfoundland. On his return he sailed to See also:Bantam in the East Indies. He served in 1673 in the Dutch See also:War under See also:Sir See also:Edward Sprague, and was See also:present at two engagements (28th of May; 4th of June); but then See also:fell sick and was put ashore. In 1674 he became an under-manager of a See also:Jamaica See also:estate, but continued only a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in this situation. He afterwards engaged in the See also:coasting See also:trade, and thus acquired an accurate knowledge of all the ports and bays of the See also:island. He made two voyages to the See also:Bay of Campeachy (1675-1676), and remained for some time with the See also:logwood-cutters, varying this occupation with buccaneering. In 1678 he returned to See also:England, again visiting Jamaica in 1679 and joining a party of See also:buccaneers, with whom he crossed the See also:Isthmus of See also:Darien, spent the See also:year 168o on the Peruvian See also:coast, and sacking, plundering and burning, made his way down to Juan See also:Fernandez Island. After serving with another privateering expedition in the See also:Spanish See also:Main, he went to See also:Virginia and engaged with a See also:captain named See also:Cook for a privateering voyage against the Spaniards in the See also:South Seas. They sailed in See also:August 1683, touched at the See also:Guinea coast, and then proceeded See also:round Cape See also:Horn into the Pacific. Having touched at Juan Fernandez, they made the coast of South See also:America, cruising along See also:Chile and See also:Peru. They took some prizes, and with these they proceeded to the Galapagos Islands and to See also:Mexico, which last they fell in with near Cape Blanco. While they See also:lay here Captain Cook died, and the command devolved on Captain See also:Davis, who, with several other pirate vessels, English and See also:French, raided the See also:west See also:American shores for the next year, attacking See also:Guayaquil, See also:Puebla Nova, &c. At last Dampier, leaving Davis, went on See also:board See also:Swan's ship, and proceeded with him along the See also:northern parts of Mexico as far as See also:southern See also:California. Swan then proposed, as the expedition met with " See also:bad success " on the Mexican coast, to run across the Pacific and return by the East Indies. They started from Cape See also:Corrientes on the 31st of See also:March 1686, and reached See also:Guam in the Ladrones on the loth of May; the men, having almost come to an end of their rations; had decided to kill and eat their leaders next, beginning with the " lusty and fleshy " Swan. After six months' See also:drunkenness and debauchery in the Philippines, the See also:majority of the See also:- CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
- CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
crew, including Dampier, See also:left Swan and See also:thirty-six others behind in Mindanao, cruised (1687-1688) from See also:Manila to Palo Condore, from the latter to See also:China, and from China to the Spice Islands and New See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland (the Australian mainland). In March 1688 they were off See also:Sumatra, and in May off the Nicobars, where Dampier was marooned (at his own See also:request, as he declares, for the purpose of establishing a trade in See also:ambergris) with two other Englishmen, a Portuguese and some See also:Malays. He and his companions contrived to navigate a See also:canoe to See also:Achin in Sumatra; but the fatigues and See also:distress of the voyage proved fatal to several and nearly carried off Dampier himself. After making several voyages to different places of the East Indies (See also:Tongking, See also:Madras, &c.), he acted for some time, and apparently somewhat unwillingly, as See also:gunner to the English fort of Benkulen. Thence he ultimately contrived to return to England in 1691.
In 1699 he was sent out by the English See also:admiralty in command of the " See also:Roebuck," especially designed for See also:discovery in and around See also:Australia. He sailed from the See also:Downs, the 14th of See also:January, with twenty months' provisions, touched at the Canaries, Cape Verdes and See also:Bahia, and ran from See also:Brazil round the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope See also:direct to Australia, whose west coast he reached on the 26th of See also:July, in about 26° S. See also:lat. Anchoring in See also:Shark's Bay, he began a careful exploration of the neighbouring See also:shore-lands, but found no good See also:harbour or See also:estuary, no fresh See also:water or provisions. In See also:September, accordingly, he left Australia, recruited and refitted at See also:Timor, and thence made for New Guinea, where he arrived on the 3rd of See also:December. By sailing along to its easternmost extremity, he discovered that it was terminated by an island, which he named New See also:Britain (now Neu Pommern), whose See also:north, south and east coasts he surveyed. That St See also:George's Bay was really St George's Channel, dividing the island into two, was not perceived by Dampier; it was the discovery
of his successor, See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Carteret. Nor did Dampier visit the west coast of New Britain or realize its small extent on that See also:side. He was prevented from prosecuting his discoveries by the discontent of his men and the See also:state of his ship. In May 1700 he was again at Timor, and thence he proceeded homeward by See also:Batavia (4th July–17th See also:October) and the Cape of Good Hope. In See also:February 1701 he arrived off See also:Ascension Island, when the See also:vessel foundered (21st–24th February), the crew reaching See also:land and staying in the island till the 3rd of See also:April, when they were conveyed to England by some East Indiamen and warships See also:bound for See also:home. In 1703–1707 Dampier commanded two See also:government privateers on an expedition to the South Seas with grievous unsuccess; better See also:fortune attended him on his last voyage, as See also:pilot to Woodes See also:Rogers in the circumnavigation of 1708–1711. On the former venture See also:Alexander See also:Selkirk, the master of one of the vessels, was marooned at Juan Fernandez; on the latter Selkirk was rescued and a profit of nearly £200,000 was made. But four years before the See also:prize-See also:money was paid Dampier died (March 1715) in St See also:Stephen's See also:parish, Coleman See also:Street, See also:London. Dampier's accounts of his voyages are famous. He had a See also:genius for observation, especially of the scientific phenomena affecting a See also:seaman's See also:life; his See also:style is usually admirable—easy, clear and manly. His knowledge of natural See also:history, though not scientific, appears surprisingly accurate and trustworthy.
See Dampier's New Voyage Round the See also:World (1697); his Voyages and Descriptions (1699), a See also:work supplementary to the New Voyage; his Voyage to New Holland in . . . 1699 (1703, 1709); also Funnell's Narrative of the Voyage of 1703–1707 ; Dampier's Vindication of his Voyage (1707) ; Welbe's See also:Answer to Captain Dampier's Vindication ; Woodes Rogers, Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712). (C. R.
End of Article: DAMPIER, WILLIAM (1652-1715)
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