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called a " New Voyage Round the World," published in London in 

 1697. Being then taken into the English service, and put in com- 

 mand of the Roebuck^ he sailed in 1699, on behalf of the Government, 

 to the Southern Ocean, exploring the coasts of Australia and New 

 Guinea, and discovering many unknown lands. On his homeward 

 voyage he was shipwrecked on Ascension Island in February, 1701, 

 but reached London the same year and again told his story in a book. 

 He made at least two more voyages with Captain William Funnell, 

 1703-05, and with Captains Woods Rogers and Stephen Courtney, 

 1708-11 for the plundering of Spanish ships in the South Sea. On 

 the latter voyage Alexander Selkirk (the original Robinson Crusoe) 

 w r as found on the island of Juan Fernandez arid taken on board as 

 one of the mates. 



Falconer, RICHARD. (Page 46.) An English navigator; au- 

 thor of a work describing his " Voyages, Dangerous Adventures, and 

 Imminent Escapes " (London, 1724). 



Fitz Roy, ROBERT. (Pp. 102, 105, 151, 174, 183, 188, 191, 198, 

 204.) An English navigator and meteorologist ; born July 5th, 1805 ; 

 died April 30th, 1865. He entered the navy in 1819, arid in 1828 was 

 associated with Captain King in an exploring expedition to the coasts 

 of Patagonia and Chile. In 1831 he commanded the Beagle in the 

 expedition round the world which Mr. Darwin accompanied as nat- 

 uralist. The results of both these voyages were published under the 

 title, "Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of H.M.SS. Adventure 

 and Beagle, 1826-1836" (London, 1839). Captain Fitz Roy was after- 

 ward Governor of New Zealand. His last years were devoted to me- 

 teorological study and observations. 



Gould, JOHN. (Page 50.) An English ornithologist ; born 

 September 14th, 1804, at Lyme-Regis, in Dorsetshire, England, and 

 still living (1879). His first published work, "A Century of Birds 

 from the Himalaya Mountains," appeared in 1832 ; his second, " The 

 Birds of Europe," in 1832-37. The next two years were spent in 

 travels in Australia, which led to two other important publications, 



