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storm, and the Author's arrival on part of New Holland. That
part described, and Shark's Bay, where he first anchors. Of the land
there, vegetables, birds, etc. A particular sort of iguana: fish, and
beautiful shells; turtle, large shark, and water-serpents. The Author's
removing to another part of New Holland: dolphins, whales, and more
sea-serpents: and of a passage or strait suspected here: of the vegetables,
birds, and fish. He anchors on a third part of New Holland, and digs
wells, but brackish. Of the inhabitants there, and great tides, the
vegetables and animals, etc.

MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
MAP. CAPTAIN DAMPIER'S NEW VOYAGE TO NEW HOLLAND
ETC. IN 1699 ETC.
TABLE 1. CANARY ISLANDS.
TABLE 2. CAPE VERDE ISLANDS.
TABLE 3. BRAZIL.
BIRDS OF THE VOYAGE: FIGURE 1: THE PINTADO BIRD.
FIGURE 2: THIS VERY MUCH RESEMBLES THE GUARAUNA,
DESCRIBED AND FIGURED BY PISO.
TABLE 4. NEW HOLLAND.
BIRDS OF NEW HOLLAND: FIGURE 3: THE HEAD AND
GREATEST PART OF THE NECK OF THIS BIRD IS RED AND
THEREIN DIFFERS FROM THE AVOFETTA OF ITALY. FIGURE
4: THE BILL AND LEGS OF THIS BIRD ARE OF A BRIGHT RED.
FIGURE 5: A NODDY OF NEW HOLLAND. FIGURE 6: A
COMMON NODDY.
FISH OF NEW HOLLAND: FIGURE 1: THE MONKFISH. FIGURE
3: A FISH TAKEN ON THE COAST OF NEW HOLLAND. FIGURE
6: A REMORA TAKEN STICKING TO SHARKS BACKS. FIGURE
8: A CUTTLE TAKEN NEAR NEW HOLLAND. FIGURE 9: A
FLYING-FISH TAKEN IN THE OPEN SEA.
PLANTS FOUND IN BRAZIL. TABLE 1 PLANTS.

PLANTS FOUND IN NEW HOLLAND. TABLE 2 PLANTS.
PLANTS FOUND IN NEW HOLLAND. TABLE 3 PLANTS.
PLANTS FOUND IN NEW HOLLAND AND TIMOR. TABLE 4
PLANTS.
PLANTS FOUND IN THE SEA NEAR NEW GUINEA. TABLE 5
PLANTS.
FISH OF NEW HOLLAND. PLATE 3 FISHES: FIGURE 4: A FISH
CALLED BY THE SEAMEN THE OLD WIFE. FIGURE 5: A FISH
OF THE TUNNY KIND TAKEN ON THE COAST OF NEW
HOLLAND.
DOLPHINS. PLATE 2 FISHES: FIGURE 2: THE DOLPHIN OF THE
ANCIENTS TAKEN NEAR THE LINE, CALLED BY OUR
SEAMEN A PORPOISE. FIGURE 7: A DOLPHIN AS IT IS
USUALLY CALLED BY OUR SEAMEN TAKEN IN THE OPEN
SEA.
A VOYAGE TO NEW HOLLAND, ETC. IN THE YEAR 1699.
DEDICATION.
To the Right Honourable Thomas, Earl of Pembroke,
Lord President of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.
My Lord,
The honour I had of being employed in the service of his late Majesty
of illustrious memory, at the time when Your Lordship presided at the
Admiralty, gives me the boldness to ask your protection of the
following papers. They consist of some remarks made upon very
distant climates, which I should have the vanity to think altogether new,
could I persuade myself they had escaped Your Lordship's knowledge.
However I have been so cautious of publishing any thing in my whole
book that is generally known that I have denied myself the pleasure of
paying the due honours to Your Lordship's name in the Dedication. I
am ashamed, My Lord, to offer you so imperfect a present, having not
time to set down all the memoirs of my last voyage: but, as the
particular service I have now undertaken hinders me from finishing this
volume, so I hope it will give me an opportunity of paying my respects
to Your Lordship in a new one.
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever
has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name. This, My Lord, was
my unhappiness in my late expedition in the Roebuck, which foundered

through perfect age near the island of Ascension. I suffered extremely
in my reputation by that misfortune; though I comfort myself with the
thoughts that my enemies could not charge any neglect upon me. And
since I have the honour to be acquitted by Your Lordship's judgment I
should be very humble not to value myself upon so complete a
vindication. This and a world of other favours which I have been so
happy as to receive from Your Lordship's goodness, do engage me to
be with an everlasting respect,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most faithful and obedient servant,
WILL. DAMPIER.
THE PREFACE.
The favourable reception my two former volumes of voyages and
descriptions have already met with in the world gives me reason to
hope that, notwithstanding the objections which have been raised
against me by prejudiced persons, this third volume likewise may in
some measure be acceptable to candid and impartial readers who are
curious to know the nature of the inhabitants, animals, plants, soil, etc.
in those distant countries, which have either seldom or not at all been
visited by any Europeans.
It has almost always been the fate of those who have made new
discoveries to be disesteemed and slightly spoken of