Especially after16th century, pirates appeared in the coastal areas with developed navigation and commerce. Because of the particularity and mystery of pirates, pirates have become legendary and even magical elements in people's hearts.
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William Dampier was born in 1652 and is British. He was a trainee sailor in the Indian Ocean, and later enlisted in the Royal Navy and participated in the naval battles between Britain and Holland. 1673, at the age of 2 1, he joined a pirate group in the west Indies and attacked Spanish ships. 1683, they moved to the Gulf of Guinea for robbery.
With his courage and talent, he soon became a captain. Unlike other pirates, he doesn't care about money and jewelry, but he has a keen interest in meteorology, hydrological phenomena and marine animals and plants. His many years of pirate sailing experience made him very familiar with everything in nature. 1693 when he first returned to London, he wrote a new voyage around the world based on his own experience, which caused a sensation.
1699 Dan Bill was already a "Royal Naval Officer" when he set sail again. He will be appointed to command the USS roebuck to inspect the South Pacific. 1700 In the middle of February, he discovered Australia today. This voyage enabled him to draw a complete map of the South Pacific. /kloc-in 0/700, Dan Bill returned to China and published On the Wind, which summarized a lot of meteorological laws and became an immortal masterpiece in the history of marine meteorology.