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A ___MASK43___ was a private person or ship that engaged in maritime warfare under a commission of war . The commission , also known as a letter of marque , empowered the person to carry on all forms of hostility permissible at sea by the usages of war , including attacking foreign vessels during wartime and taking them as prizes . Captured ships were subject to condemnation and sale under prize law , with the proceeds divided between the ___MASK43___ sponsors , shipowners , captains and crew . A percentage share usually went to the issuer of the commission . Since robbery under arms was common to seaborne trade , all merchant ships were already armed . During war , naval resources were auxiliary to operations on land so privateering was a way of subsidizing state power by mobilizing armed ships and sailors . George Shelvocke ( baptised 1 April 1675 -- 30 November 1742 ) was an English Royal Navy ___MASK9___ and later ___MASK43___ who in 1723 wrote A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea based on his exploits . It includes an account of how his second captain , Simon Hatley , shot an albatross off Cape Horn , an incident which provided the dramatic motive in Samuel Taylor Coleridge ' s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner . William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770  23 April 1850 ) was a ___MASK61___ English Romantic poet who , with Samuel Taylor Coleridge , helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication " Lyrical Ballads " ( 1798 ). Lemuel Gulliver is the fictional protagonist and ___MASK95___ of " Gulliver ' s Travels ", a novel written by Jonathan Swift , first published in 1726 . Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 177225 July 1834 ) was an English ___MASK80___ , ___MASK7___ and ___MASK1___ who , with his friend William Wordsworth , was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets . He wrote the poems " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner " and " Kubla Khan ", as well as the major prose work " Biographia Literaria ". His critical work , especially on Shakespeare , was highly influential , and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English - speaking culture . Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases , including suspension of disbelief . He was a major influence on Emerson and American transcendentalism . Cape Horn ( Dutch : ), named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands , is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile , and is located on the small Hornos Island . Although not the most southerly point of South America ( which are the Diego Ramírez Islands ), Cape Horn marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage and marks where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans collide . For decades it was a ___MASK61___ milestone on the clipper route , by which sailing ships carried trade around the world . The waters around Cape Horn are particularly hazardous , owing to strong winds , large waves , strong currents and icebergs ; these dangers have made it notorious as a sailors ' graveyard . Simon Hatley ( 27 March 1685after 1723 ) was an English ___MASK87___ involved in two hazardous privateering voyages to the South Pacific Ocean . Both times he was captured and imprisoned by the Spanish . In 1709 he sailed with Alexander Selkirk , a likely model for Robinson Crusoe , and William Dampier , favoured in " Gulliver ' s Travels " as a mariner comparable to Lemuel Gulliver . The Netherlands is the main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands . It is a densely populated country located in Western Europe with three island territories in the Caribbean . The European part of the Netherlands borders Germany to the east , Belgium to the south , and the North Sea to the northwest , sharing maritime borders with Belgium , the ___MASK68___ , and Germany . The largest cities in the Netherlands are Amsterdam , Rotterdam , The Hague and Utrecht . Amsterdam is the country ' s capital , while The Hague holds the Dutch seat of government and parliament . The name " Holland " is used to refer informally to the whole of the country of the Netherlands . The diving petrels are seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes . There are four very similar species all in the family Procellariidae and genus Pelecanoides ( Lacépède , 1799 ), distinguished only by small differences in the coloration of their plumage and their bill ___MASK3___ . They are only found in the Southern Hemisphere . Biographia Literaria , or in full Biographia Literaria ; or Biographical Sketches of My ___MASK25___ Life and Opinions , is an autobiography in discourse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , which he published in 1817 , in two volumes . The Royal Navy ( RN ) is the ___MASK68___ ' s naval warfare force . Although warships were used by the English kings from the early medieval period , the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years War against the kingdom of France . The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century ; the oldest of the UK ' s armed services , it is known as the Senior Service . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere ) is the longest ___MASK61___ poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge , written in 1797  98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of " Lyrical Ballads ". Modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss . Along with other poems in " Lyrical Ballads ", it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature . William Dampier ( baptised 5 September 1651 ; died March 1715 ) was an English ___MASK48___ and navigator who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia , and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times . He has also been described as Australia ' s first natural historian , as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between Sir Walter Raleigh and James Cook . Gulliver ' s Travels , whose full title is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World . In Four Parts . By Lemuel Gulliver , First a ___MASK97___ , and then a Captain of Several Ships , ( 1726 , amended 1735 ), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift , that is both a satire on human nature and the " travellers ' tales " literary subgenre . It is Swift ' s best known full - length work , and a classic of English literature . He himself claimed that he wrote " Gulliver ' s Travels " " to vex the world rather than divert it ". In the days of fighting sail , a letter of marque and reprisal was a government license authorizing a person ( known as a " ___MASK43___ ") to attack and capture enemy vessels and bring them before admiralty courts for condemnation and sale . Cruising for prizes with a letter of marque was considered an honorable calling combining patriotism and profit , in contrast to unlicensed piracy , which was universally reviled . In addition to the term lettre de marque , the French sometimes used the term lettre de course for their letters of marque . " Letter of marque " was sometimes used to describe the vessel used : a " letter of marque " generally refers to a lumbering square - rigged cargo carrier that might pick up a prize if the opportunity arose . A " ___MASK43___ " was a fast and weatherly fore - and - aft - rigged vessel heavily armed and heavily crewed , intended exclusively for fighting . Some of Coleridge ' s contemporaries denounced the poem and questioned his story of its origin . It was not until years later that critics began to openly admire the poem . Most modern critics now view " Kubla ___MASK96___ " as one of Coleridge ' s three great poems , along with " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner " and " Christabel ". The poem is considered one of the most famous examples of Romanticism in English poetry . A copy of the manuscript is a permanent exhibit at the British Museum in London . South America is a continent located in the western hemisphere , mostly in the southern hemisphere , with a relatively small portion in the northern hemisphere . It is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas , which is the ___MASK77___ used in nations that speak Romance languages . The reference to South America instead of other regions ( like Latin America or the Southern Cone ) has increased in the last decades due to changing geopolitical dynamics ( in particular , the rise of Brazil ). The term suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief has been defined as a willingness to suspend one ' s critical faculties and believe the unbelievable ; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment . The term was coined in 1817 by the ___MASK80___ and aesthetic ___MASK1___ Samuel Taylor Coleridge , who suggested that if a ___MASK18___ could infuse a " human interest and a semblance of truth " into a fantastic tale , the ___MASK27___ would suspend judgement concerning the implausibility of the narrative . Suspension of disbelief often applies to fictional works of the action , comedy , fantasy , and horror genres . Cognitive estrangement in fiction involves using a person ' s ignorance to promote suspension of disbelief . Seabirds ( also known as marine birds ) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment . While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle , behaviour and ___MASK74___ , they often exhibit striking convergent evolution , as the same environmental problems and feeding niches have resulted in similar adaptations . The first seabirds evolved in the Cretaceous period , and modern seabird families emerged in the Paleogene . Albatrosses , of the biological family Diomedeidae , are large seabirds allied to the procellariids , storm petrels and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes ( the tubenoses ). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific . They are absent from the North Atlantic , although fossil remains show they once occurred there and occasional vagrants are found . Albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds , and the great albatrosses ( genus " Diomedea ") have the largest wingspans of any extant birds , reaching up to . The albatrosses are usually regarded as falling into four genera , but there is disagreement over the number of species . The ___MASK68___ of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the ___MASK68___ ( UK ) or Britain , is a ___MASK52___ country in western Europe . Lying off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole country ), the north - eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another ___MASK52___ statethe Republic of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest ___MASK52___ state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous country , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated country in the European Union . The wingspan ( or just span ) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip . For example , the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a wandering albatross (" Diomedea exulans ") caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the ___MASK26___ record for a living bird . Alexander Selkirk ( 167613 December 1721 ) was a Scottish ___MASK43___ and Royal Navy officer who spent more than four years as a castaway ( 1704  1709 ) after being marooned by his captain on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean . He survived that ordeal , but succumbed to tropical illness a dozen years later while serving aboard off West Africa . Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families : the albatrosses , petrels and shearwaters , storm petrels , and diving petrels . Formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses in English , they are often referred to collectively as the petrels , a term that has been applied to all Procellariiformes , or more commonly all the families except the albatrosses . They are almost exclusively pelagic ( feeding in the open ocean ), and have a cosmopolitan distribution across the world ' s oceans , with the highest ___MASK15___ being around New Zealand . The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England , ___MASK68___ , at the turn of the nineteenth century . As a group , they followed no single " school " of thought or literary practice then known . They were named , only to be uniformly disparaged , by the " Edinburgh Review ". They are considered part of the Romantic Movement . Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe , first published on 25 April 1719 . The first edition credited the work ' s protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its ___MASK93___ , leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents . An iceberg or ice ___MASK19___ is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water . It may subsequently become frozen into pack ice ( one form of sea ice ). As it drifts into shallower waters , it may come into contact with the seabed , a process referred to as seabed gouging by ice . Almost 91 % of an iceberg is below the surface of the water . Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States . It arose as a reaction to or protest against the ___MASK22___ state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time . The doctrine of the Unitarian church as taught at Harvard Divinity School was of particular interest .