Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . valuableremarks on the deep seas so often found near high lands, on the want ofharbours in lofty, rocky coasts, and the need of level bottoms for , his account of New Holland was the best English description sofar of what was from our side a new discovery. The Ctignct went on to Madagascar, then a great centre of piracy [ story), and now lies sunk in St. Augustines Bay there. EXFLDE
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . valuableremarks on the deep seas so often found near high lands, on the want ofharbours in lofty, rocky coasts, and the need of level bottoms for , his account of New Holland was the best English description sofar of what was from our side a new discovery. The Ctignct went on to Madagascar, then a great centre of piracy [ story), and now lies sunk in St. Augustines Bay there. EXFLDEA TIOX. l:42-1743. 39 (four of them the Malays froui the proa lately scuttled, whohad been put ashore ^\?ith him), he started for Sumatra, and,after an adventurous canoe voyage, came in five days to thecoast of Achin, (15th to 19th May, 16S8). Hence Dampiermade his way to Bencoolen factory, where he entered theservice of the East India Company. He was disgusted withthe conduct of the officials, and not thinking himself safeunder men so brutish and barbarous as some of them,returned to England, by the Cape of Good Hope, in arrived in the Downs on the IGth September of that. DAMPIEUS PASSAGE AND SHARKS BAY, AUSTRALIA. (Fz-om Dampiers Voyages, 1697.) year; and Evelyn mentions in his Diarv the Menangisislander, Avhom the reclaimed buccaneer tried to exhibit asas Indian Prince. For the next six years we have no more news of him,but in 1697 he published his Voj^age Round the World,with a dedication to Charles Montague, the President of theRoyal Society. In 1699 an additional volume gave anaccount of his stay in India, and of his shorter voyages toTonquin, Madras, and other places, with a dedication to theFirst Lord of the Admiralty, Orford, to whom Dampier wasrecommended by Montague for the command of an exploringvoyage. 40 THE AGE OF WALPOLE. Dampiers The offer was accepted, and the Terra Aiistrahs fixed Second ^^g j-^g object of exploration, at Dampiers own suggestion.
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