SEA-ROVERS 



Revenge on a cruise that was rank piracy and in the course of it circum- 

 navigated the globe, making his usual voluminous notes and adding 

 greatly to the knowledge of the time. In 1699, in spite of his record, 

 he was appointed to the command of H.M.S. Roebuck to explore the 

 East Indies and Australia, at whose existence he had hinted in his log. 

 Unfortunately he was persuaded to go round the Cape of Good Hope 

 instead of Cape Horn, so that he missed the definite discovery of inhabit- 

 able Australia although he skirted the North Coast. His ship sank at 

 Ascension, where he is supposed to have buried a large treasure. He 

 then sailed with Danish Letters of Marque with Alexander Selkirk, the 

 original of Robinson Crusoe, as a very surly shipmate, but the cruise was 

 a failure. Finally he went on a last cruise in a subordinate capacity and 

 died ashore in 1715. 



End of Vol. I. 



Heavtng the Lead. 



The Norwegian Sea Serpent. 200 /(. loiigl 



Alff and the Female Pirates Aluilda and Rusila. 



Woodcuts from Claus Magnus, " Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus," 1555. 



(Macpherson Collection) 



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