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After rounding Cape Horn, one of Shelvocke's men shot a black albatross - an event later to be immortalised in Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner - and then, off Chile, with considerable loot onboard his ship, the Speedwell, was wrecked in the Juan Fernandez Islands. Undaunted, he built another vessel and eventually returned to England, via Macao, loaded with Spanish plunder. Back home he was arrested for piracy and defrauding his shareholders, though he argued that he owed the original owners nothing as their ship had been honestly lost. The events were grippingly portrayed in his memoir A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, though some of it was disputed by Betagh and others, and it still reads today as a fast moving, incident-packed tale exposing the world of the maritime mercenaries and privateers, men who would take on anything and everything - for Gold! GEORGE SHELVOCKE was born in 1675 and entered the Navy when he was 15. 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