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with suck concern as now. I composed my mind as well as I 

 could in the hope of God's assistance ; and, as the event showed, 

 I was not disappointed of my hopes." 



The preceding representation of the storm is copied from an 

 engraving one hundred and fifty years old, which appeared in the 

 narrative published by Dampier himself. Were it not for this 

 fact, we should not have reproduced it, — as it is very inaccurate, 

 and does not give the outriggers, by which alone the canoe was 

 maintained afloat. 



About eight o'clock in the morning one of the Malays cried 

 out, Pub Way, which Dampier and Hall took to be good Eng- 

 lish, meaning "Pull away." He pointed to the horizon, where 

 land was just appearing in sight. This was the island of Pulo 

 Way, at the northwest end of Sumatra. It lay to the south; 

 and, in order to make it with a strong west wind, "they trimmed 

 their sail no bigger than an apron," and, relying upon their out- 

 riggers, made boldly for the shore, which they reached the next 

 morning, the 21st of May. The supposed island turned out to 

 be the Golden Mountain of Sumatra. They landed, and, after 

 being hospitably received by the natives, arrived at Acheen early 

 in June. 



At this point the history of Dampier's adventures as a cir- 

 cumnavigator comes properly to an end. He published a nar- 

 rative of his career, which he dedicated to Charles Montague, 

 President of the Royal Society, and which brought him into 

 favorable notice. His descriptions have been long admired for 

 their graphic force; while his treatises on winds, tides, and cur- 

 rents show a remarkable degree of observation and science for 

 that age of the world. His account of the Philippine Islands 

 and of New Holland is still printed complete in the numerous 

 collections of voyages that are constantly thrown off by the 

 English and Continental presses. Such was the remarkable 

 career of a man who, though without the ferocity and barbarous 

 habits of the buccaneers, was in every sense of the word a 



