The Life of a Buccaneer.

This article presents information on the book "Dampier's Voyages," by William Dampier. The book has been edited by John Masefield. "I would ask those readers who find the voyages dull to remember the life of him who wrote them," says Masefield in an introductory memoir. But voyages are not dull to one who has acquired the art of skipping. There are many details about winds and shoals, transcripts from a sailor's log, but all these and other technicalities can be passed over at a glance by the reader who is intent upon the real stuff of Dampier's narratives.