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Last time we discussed the Second Pacific Adventure and the Pirates John Cook, Edward Davis, Charles Swan and William Dampier.

We covered Swan and Dampir crossing the Pacific Ocean on board their ship

Signet. We ended our story when they reached the island of Guam in the East Indies. And the East Indies are going to dominate our story for the next little while.

Dampier in particular spent a lot of time in the East Indies on this voyage and others.

Over the next few weeks, we're going to look at the adventures he had there, and the local

politics in which he got wrapped up.

That's a theme we'll see time and time again.

And we'll also look at the history of the East Indies from the time of European contact

through the lens of three other explorers, Vosko-Daugama, Ferdinand Magellan, and Francis Drake.

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