an English navigator and buccaneer; led a roving and adventurous life, and parting company with his comrades, set off on a cruise in the South Seas; came home and published a "Voyage Round the World"; this led to his employment in further adventures, in one of which Alexander Selkirk accompanied him, but was wrecked on Juan Fernandez; in his last adventure, it is said, he rescued Selkirk and brought him home.
Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (1907)
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you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called “A Voyage round the world.”
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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In that up and down manly book of old-fashioned adventure, so full, too, of honest wonders— the voyage of Lionel Wafer, one of ancient Dampier's old chums— I found a little matter set down so like that just quoted from Langsdorff, that I cannot forbear inserting it here for a corroborative example, if such be needed.