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admirable force and nature, they arrived fafely on the 
coaft of Sumatra. The liardfliips they had endured, 
however, proved fatal to feveral of the company, and 
threw Dampier into a fever and flux, from which he 
was not free for a twelvemonth. He made feveral voy¬ 
ages to Tonquin, Malacca, and other parts of the Eaft 
Indies; and afted Ibme time as gunner to the Englifh 
fort of Bencoolen. Defirous, at length, of returning 
home, he embarked in January, 1691, on-board of an 
Eaft-Tndia fliip, and arrived in the Downs in September, 
having thus completed his circumnavigation of the globe. 
He brought with him as his property a native of Mean- 
gis, one of the Spice iflands, named Jeoly, whom he 
calls the painted prince, and who appears to have been the 
fon of the chief of the ifle, curioufly tattovved. He 
feems to have purchafed this Indian in the- way of a 
fpeculation; and we learn that he was ffiewn for a fight 
in England, and at length died of the fmall-pox at 
Oxford. 
How Dampier was employed fomc years after his re¬ 
turn, we are not informed, but at length we find him in 
the king’s fervice, and entrufled with the command of 
the Roebuck, a (loop of twelve guns and fifty men, pro¬ 
bably fitted out for a voyage of difeovery, fince flie had 
twenty months provifion on-board. He fet fail in 1699, 
and after touching at Brafil, made a run to the weftern 
coaft of New Holland, where he arrived, about lat. 26, 
on the 1 ft of Augu-ft. He ran into a bay, which he named 
Shark’s-bay, and thence proceeded along the coaft north¬ 
wards, landing occafionally to explore the country. He 
then failed to the ifle of Timor to procure refreftiments; 
whence he fleered to tire coaft of New Guinea, which he 
reached on the 3d of December. Ranging along to its 
eafternmoft extremity, he found it terminated by an ifland, 
which he failed round, and named New Britain. Here 
we find him hinting the many difficulties he met with, 
“ the fewnefs of his men, their defire to haften home,” 
&c. as caufes which hindered him from further profe- 
cuting Ills intended fearch. He returned to Timor in 
May, and proceeding homeward by Batavia and the Cape 
of Good Hope, arrived oft' the ifle of Afcenfion in Fe¬ 
bruary, 1701. His veflel there fpringing a leak, foun¬ 
dered at fea, and the crew had much difficulty in reach¬ 
ing the ifland. They remained there till they were 
brought away by an Eaft-India ffiip, in which Dampier 
came to England. Here ends his own account of his ad¬ 
ventures; but from the preface to his third volume it 
appears, that he was preparing in 1703 for another voy¬ 
age ; and in captain Woodes Rogers’s Voyage round the 
World, it is mentioned that Dampier commanded a fliip 
in the South Seas about 1705, having for his confort cap¬ 
tain Stradling, whole veil'd foundered at fea. We find 
alfo that Dampier accompanied Woodes Rogers in the 
voyage above-mentioned, which lafted from 1708 to 1711, 
as his pilot, which feems extraordinary after he had twice 
been a commander. Probably he was not able to main¬ 
tain due fubordination in that quality. He is mentioned 
as having the command of the artillery at the capture of 
Guaiaquil in that expedition. Of the further particu¬ 
lars of his life, and the place and time of his death, we 
have no information. 
Dampier publifhed, in three volumes Svo, his Voyage 
round the World; a Supplement to it, deferibing the 
Countries of Tonquin, Malacca, Sumatra, &c. Two Voy¬ 
ages to Campeachy ; a Difcourfe of Trade-Winds, Sea- 
fons, Tides, &c. in the Torrid Zone; and his Voyage to 
New Holland. Thefe have been many times reprinted, 
and the fubltance of them has been incorporated into all 
the general collections of voyages. They contain a great 
mimber of curious and valuable obfervations, written in 
a plain but ftrongly deferiptive ftyle, and bearing all the 
marks of fidelity. The nautical remarks feem to dilplay 
much profeffional, and even philofophical, knowledge. 
The obfervations in natural hiftory, though not properly 
Scientific, are fo clear and particular, that they have been 
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much quoted as authority by writers on the fubjefl, and 
have been moftly confirmed by later voyagers. It may 
be added, that he w r rifes like a man of good principles, 
though he had the misfortune to keep bad company. 
DAMPIJiR'RE-SUR-SALON, a town of France, in 
the department of the Upp r Saotie, and chief place of a 
canton, in the diftricl of Champlitte: eight miles north 
of Gray. 
D AMPIER'RE-LES-FR AIS ANS, a town of France, 
in the department of the Jura, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftrifl of Dole : ten miles north-eaft of Dole. 
D AMP'ISHNESS,y.' Tendency to wetnefs; fogginefs; 
moifture.—It hath been ufed by fome with great fuccefs 
to make their walls thick ; and to put a lay of chalk be¬ 
tween the bricks, to lake away all dampi/hnefs. Bacon. 
DAMP'NESS,yi Moifture; fogginefs.—By ftack3they 
often have very great lofs, by the dampnefs of tlffi ground, 
which rots and fpoils it. Mortimer. 
Nor need they fear the dampnefs of the iky 
Should flag their wings, and hinder them to fly ; 
’Twas only water thrown on fails too dry. Dryden. 
DAMP'Y, adj. Dejefted; gloomy; forrowful.—The 
lords did difpel dampy thoughts, which the remembrance 
of his uncle might raife, by applying him with exercifes 
and difports. Hayward. 
DAMRABAD', a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Segeftan : 180 miles fouth-weft of Zareng. 
DAMSE'E, a lake of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and Ucker Mark of Brandenburg: nine miles 
north-w'eft of Prenzlow. 
DAM'SEL, f. [ damoifelle , Fr.] A young gentlewo¬ 
man ; a young woman of diftindlion : now only ufed iu verfet 
Kneeling, I my fervant’s fmiles implore, 
And one mad damfel dares difpute my powT. Prior. 
An attendant of the better rank : 
With her train of damfels flie was gone 
In fliady walks, the Icorching heat to fliun. Dryden. 
A wench ; a country lafs.—The clowns are whoremafters, 
and the damfels witli child. Gay. 
DAM'SON, f. [corruptly from damafeene. ] A fmall 
black plum. See Damascene. 
My wife defir’d fome damfons. 
And made me climb with danger of my life. Shakefpeare. 
DAM'SONG, a town of Afia, in the country of Boo-, 
tan : fifty-four miles fouth-weft of Taflafudon. Lat. 27. 
11. N. Ion. 88. 24. E. Greenwich. 
DAM'STER; a river of Germany, which runs into 
the Ems, at Delfzyl. 
DAM'VILLE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Verneuil : ten miles fouth of Evreux. 
DAMVIL'LIERS, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Meufe, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftricl of Verdun. It originally belonged to the duchy of 
Luxemburg, and was fortified by the emperor Charles V. 
in 1521. The French took it under Henry II. and Louis 
XIII. It was ceded to France by the treaty of the Pyre¬ 
nees, and difmantled in 1673. It is eleven miles nor.h of 
Verdun, .and eleven fouth of Montmedy. 
DAN, [n i. e. judgement.] A proper name of men. 
DAN, the tribe or province of, (Jofli. xix. 40.) was 
the feventh lot which came up for the divifion of the 
Holy Land among the feveral tribes; it contained eigh¬ 
teen cities with their villages. But, being too fmall to 
contain them, the Danites went out with fix hundred 
armed men, and fought againft the inhabitants of Laifn, 
fniote them, it is faid, with the edge of the fword, and 
burnt the city with fire ; upon the fite of which they 
built a new city, which they called Dan, in honour of 
their grandfire. Judges, xviii. 
DAN, a city forming the north boundary of Paleftine, 
belonging to the tribe of Dan, built by them upon the 
fite 
