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William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World (1697–1703)
William Dampier (1652–1715) joined a crew of privateers in the Spanish Main and crossed the Isthmus of Darien to the Pacific, a wider field for plunder, in 1679. In his series of travel memoirs we read...
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William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World (1697–1703)
William Dampier (1652–1715) joined a crew of privateers in the Spanish Main and crossed the Isthmus of Darien to the Pacific, a wider field for plunder, in 1679.
In his series of travel memoirs we read.
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