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1776, in the Resolution, his consort, the Discovery, joining him at the 

 Cape of Good Hope. The two ships visited Van Dieinen's Land and 

 New Zealand, and spent 1777 among the islands of the South Pacific. 

 Going north, he discovered the Sandwich Islands (1778), and sur- 

 veyed the west coast of North America as far as Icy Cape (thus passing 

 through the Behring Straits). Thence, finding further advance im- 

 possible, he returned to the Sandwich Islands, anchoring in Karakakoa 

 Bay. The natives at first proved friendly, but quarrels afterwards 

 arose, and Cook, going on shore to recover a stolen boat, was killed 

 (14th February 1779), no attempt at a rescue being made. 



COWLEY, Captain, buccaneer, fell in with " Pepys " Island, which 

 was afterwards recognised to be one of the Falklands, about the year 

 1683. He sailed round the world in 1683-86, keeping a Journal 

 from which the account of his voyage in Callander's " Terra Australis 

 Cognita " is taken. 



DALRYMPLE, Alexander (1737-1808), went out as a writer in the 

 East India Company's service in 1752, and undertook several voyages 

 for the Company, particularly to the Sulu Islands and to China. In 

 1767 he published an "Account of Discoveries in the South Pacific 

 Ocean before 1764," and later a "Historical Collection of South Sea 

 Voyages" (1770-71), besides pamphlets on Indian affairs. He was 

 appointed the first Hydrographer to the Admiralty in 1795, but was 

 dismissed in 1808, and died the same year. 



D AMPLER, William (1652-1715), buccaneer, captain in the navy, 

 and hydrographer, made several voyages to the South Seas. In one 

 of these he left Virginia in 1683 and went by way of South America 

 to the East Indies, where he spent some time in trading. He re- 

 turned to England in 1691 and published his "Voyage Round the 

 World " (1697). On a later voyage he sailed under directions from the 

 Admiralty along the northern coast of New Holland and visited New 

 Guinea (1699-1701). His narrative of this expedition, entitled 

 "Voyage to New Holland in the year 1699" (published 1703-9), is 

 remarkable for the information it contains on the natural history, etc., 

 of Australia. He was again in the South Seas in 1703-7 and in 

 1708, upon which last occasion he rescued Alexander Selkirk, whom 

 he had himself left there on the former voyage, from the island of 

 Juan Fernandez. 



"DOLPHIN," the first vessel in the English navy sheathed with 

 copper : 1st voyage, see Byron; 2nd voyage (to Otahite), see Wallis. 



EDWARDS, George, F.R.S. (1694-1773), naturalist, Librarian to the 

 Royal College of Physicians. He was the author of a "History of 

 Birds" (1743-64), one volume of which is remarkable for being dedi- 

 cated to God. 



