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The fifhing fhips, contrary to promife, left him and re¬ 
turned. He himfelf again entered the ftraits or gulf 
which bear his name, and proceeded northwards as far as 
lat. 73. He then failed weftward till he fell in with the 
American land, and afterwards examined feveral iflands 
and inlets as far fouth as lat. 52. when, being in want of 
neceffaries, he fleered homewards. All thefe trials ren¬ 
dered him more fanguine in his hopes of a paffage ; but 
the Spanifh invafion, which foon followed, prevented 
farther attention to this objedt at that period. Davis did 
not remain inactive at home, but failed, in 1591, as cap¬ 
tain of the Defire, the rear-admiral fir ip of Mr. Caven- 
difli, in his fecond unfortunate expedition to the South 
Seas; and he is charged by Cavendifh with deferting 
him. After his return, he made five voyages to the Eaft 
Indies in the capacity of a pilot. During the laft, with 
fir Edward Michelbourne, he loft his life in an engage¬ 
ment with fome Japonefe on the coaft of Malacca, De¬ 
cember 1605. He wrote an account of his north-weft voy¬ 
ages, and one of his Eaft-India voyages, in a Dutch fhip, 
and fome other profeffional tracts. 
DA'VIS’s COVE, a cove on the weft coaft of the ifland 
of Jamaica : two mile north of Green Ifland harbour. 
DA'VIS’s INLET, a river or arm of the fea, on the 
eaft coaft of Labrador, the mouth.fituated lat. 56. 20. N. 
Ion. 60. 10. V/. Greenwich. 
DA'VIS’s STRAIT, or Gulf, a narrow fea which 
divides Greenland from North America, difcovered by 
captain Davis in 15-65. Lat. 60. to 80. N. The fea of 
Davis is a part of Baffin’s Bay ; the whole of which may 
be confidered as part of the Hudfon Sea, or, as it is more 
iifually called, Hudfon’s Bay, and probably joins the 
Arftic ocean. Hence this fea or (trait is now fuppofed 
to be wholly imaginary, particularly as the weft coaft of 
Greenland has never been explored beyond lat. 72. or 
Sanderfon’s Hope, and an old Danifh fettlement called 
Opernevig. In the midft of Baffin’s Bay, many maps 
prefent a large traft called James Ifland; which, per¬ 
haps, is a promontory palling from Greenland, or rather 
a large ifland in the north of Hudfon Sea, laid down from 
erroneous obfervation. 
DAUK-BEARERS,yi The (laves in India who carry 
the palanquins. 
DAU'LE, a town of South America, in the audience 
of Qmto, and jurifdiftion of Guayaquil. 
DAU'LIS, a nymph, from whom the city of Daulis in 
Phocis, anciently called Anacris, received its name. It 
was there that Philomela and Procne made Tereus eat 
the flefli of his Ion. Strabo. 
DAUL'SEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and county of Verden: four miles north- 
north-eaft of Verden. 
DAU'MA, a kingdom of Africa, in Negroland, with 
a town of the fame name. Lat.8.N. Ion. 34. 10. E. Ferra. 
DAUMAZAN', a town of France, in the department 
of the Arriege, and chief place of a canton, in-the diftrift 
of Mirepoix : eight leagues weft of Mirepoix. 
DAUN (Leopold, .count), a celebrated general in the 
Auffrian fervice, born in 1705, of an ancient and honour¬ 
able family. His father, count Daun, having a com¬ 
mand in Italy, he was educated in that country, and 
ftudied for fome time at Rome for the church. Prefer¬ 
ring, however, a military life, he obtained admifiion 
among the knights of Malta, and entered into the impe¬ 
rial fervice. He rofe to the rank of colonel of a regi¬ 
ment of infantry in 1740, and diftinguifhed himfelf in the 
war which Maria Therefa fuftained in defence of her he¬ 
reditary fucceffion. In the fubfequent war of 1756, he 
raifed a high reputation throughout Europe, as the moft 
formidable antagonifl of the king of Pruffia. His cool 
and cautious vigilance was matched againft the enterprife 
and celerity of the royal commander, and he is confidered 
as the Fabius of that Hannibal. When the'king of Pruf¬ 
fia was befieging prince Charles of Lorraine in Prague, 
’Daun affemblea an army for his relief, with which, on 
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June 18, 1757, he entirely defeated, at Kolin the king, 
who had made a furious attack upon him. On this oc- 
cafion the emprefs-queen inftituted the military order 
bearing her name, of which marflial Daun was created 
grand-crofs. In 175S, he faved Olm.utz by a feries of 
judicious movements, and afterwards defeated the king 
of Pruffia at Hochkirchen. Fie furrounded and took pri- 
foners the whole army of general Fink, at Pirna, in 1759. 
When Drefden- was unexpectedly attacked by the king 
in 1760, Daun compelled him to relinquifli his attempt; 
but he was afterwards defeated at Torgau, though not 
till a dangerous wound in the thigh had obliged him to 
quit the held. Ide continued to command during the re¬ 
mainder of the war, always preferving his reputation for 
perfect (kill, and indefatigable vigilance. He died at 
Vienna in 1766, much efteemed for his private virtues, 
as well as for his profeffional abilities. 
DAUN, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Stiria ; 
four miles eaft of Judenburg. 
DAU'NI, a people on the eaftern part of Italy, con¬ 
quered by Daunus, from whom they received their name. 
DAU'NIA, a country of Apulia, on the coaft of the 
Adriatic. It receives its name from Daunus, who fet¬ 
tled there. Virgil. 
To DAUNT, v. a. \_domter, Fr. domitarc, Lat.] To dif- 
courage; to fright; to intimidate.—Some prefences daunt 
and difcourage us, when others raife us to a brifk aifur- 
ance. Glanville. 
Where the rude ax, with heaved ftroke. 
Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, 
Or fright them from their hallow’d haunt. Milton. 
DAUNT'LESS, adj. Fearlefs ; not dejected ; not dif- 
couraged.—Put on the dauntlejs fpirit of refolution. 
ShakeJ'peare. 
Dauntlejs he rofe, and to the fight return’d : 
With fhame his glowing cheeks, his eyeswithfury burn’d. 
Dry den. 
DAUNT'I.ESSNESS, /. Fearleffhefs. 
DAU'NUS, a fon of Pilumnus and Danae. He came 
from Ulyricum into Apulia, where he reigned over part 
of the country, which from him was called Daunia. Mela. 
—A river of Apulia. Horatius. 
DA'VOS, a town of Swifferland, and capital of a jurif- 
diftion of the fame name, in the country of the Grifons. 
In the diftrifl are two lakes well fumifhed with ftfh, mines 
of copper, lead, and filver; and the inhabitants breed a 
a great number of cattle: lixty miles fouth-eaft of Zu¬ 
rich. Lat. 46. 4.0. .N. Ion. 27. 21. E. Ferro. 
DAU'PHIN, a title formerly given to the eldeft fon 
of the king of France, on account of the province of Dau- 
phiny, which in 1343 was given to Philip de Valois, on 
this condition, by Humbert dauphin of the Viennois. 
DAU'PHIN, a jurifdidtion, fort, and fea-port town, 
in the north part of the ifland of St. Domingo. This 
divifion contains five parifhes. Its exports from Janu¬ 
ary 1, 1789, to December 31 of the fame year, confifted 
of fugar, coffee, cotton, indigo, fpirits, molaffes, and tan¬ 
ned hides, in value 35,252 dollars thirteen cents. The 
town of Fort Dauphin is remarkable for a fountain con- 
ftruCted by the orders of M. de Marbois, which coft 
10,678 dollars. Lat. 19. 41. N. 
DAU'PHIN, an ifland of North America, about ten 
miles long, in the mouth of Mobile Bay, five miles from 
Maflacre Ifland, with a fhoal all the way between them. 
Thefe are fuppofed formerly to have been but one, and 
went by the general name of Maflacre, fo called by M. 
d’Ibberville, from a large heap of human bones found 
thereon at his landing. It was afterwards called Dauphin 
Ifland. The weft end, a diftance of between three ar.d 
four miles, is a narrow- flip of land with fome trees ; the 
reft is covered with thick pines, which come clofe to the 
water’s edge on the eaft fide, forming a large bluff. The 
French attempted aXettlement herej and there is the re. 
mains 
