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I had very early of seeing the world." In 1670 he went 

 a summer voyage to Newfoundland, but was so pinched 

 by the rigour of the climate, that he determined never 



WILLIAM DAMPIER. 

 (From the painting by Thomas Murray in the National Portrait Gallery.) 



to go to that part of the world again. Then, receiving 

 " the offer of a warm voyage and a long one," he sailed 

 in an East-Indiaman for Java, where he stayed two months, 

 gaining no doubt some knowledge of, and more interest 

 in, the world in which Java was the centre, learning what 



