Having left the dry western coast of Australia in search of water, the former buccaneer William Dampier takes HMS Roebuck north to Timor, then along the coast of New Guinea and on to an island he names New Britain. He describes the peoples, fish, birds and giant bats he meets, charts the islands, and recounts the long voyage home in a ship that was falling apart beneath him.
The second half of Dampier’s 1699 expedition, a sequel to A Voyage to New Holland for readers of early Pacific exploration and natural history. Download the free EPUB.