THIRTY-FOUR
"The Buccaneer Archipelago was named for an English pirate who visited them back in the seventeenth century. Name of William Dampier. Several of the bays around here are named after his ships. Cygnet Bay and Roebuck Bay. Then there's streets in town like Dampier Terrace that are called after him, too. On the east coast, they're so proud of Captain Cook, who they say was the first Englishman to explore Australia in the eighteenth century, but they're wrong. If James Cook had a hero, it was Dampier. He had copies of Dampier's journals with him on every voyage." The pilot paused to point. "If you look out that way, you'll see Cygnet Bay, where Dampier careened the Cygnet. Careening's what it's called when they haul a ship out of the water to clean all the muck off the bottom, so
