Lionel Wafer
From Kook Science
| Lionel Wafer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1661 Wales |
| Died | 1705 (aged 43–44) London, England |
Lionel Wafer (1661-1705) was a Welsh-born naval surgeon and buccaneer who spent several years during the 1680s among the Guna (Cuna) people of the Isthmus of Darien, including the so-called White People of Darien, which he detailed in his 1699 book A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America.
Selected Bibliography
- Wafer, Lionel (1699), A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America, Giving an Account of the Author's Abode There, &c., London: Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, https://archive.org/details/newvoyagedescrip02wafe