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William Dampier

William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651early 1715) was the first man of English descent to explore sections of New Holland (Australia) and also the first person to circumnavigate the world three times.

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.
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The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
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