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Lionel Wafer (1640–1705) was a Welsh explorer, buccaneer and privateer. A ship's surgeon, Wafer made several voyages to the South Seas and visited Maritime Southeast Asia in 1676. In 1679 he sailed again as a surgeon, soon after settling in Jamaica to practise his profession. In 1680, Wafer was recruited by buccaneer Edmund Cooke to join a privateering venture under the leadership of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, where he met William Dampier at Cartagena. Wafer reunited with Dampier, and after privateering with him on the Spanish Main until 1688, he settled in Philadelphia.

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  • Lionel Wafer (1640–1705) was a Welsh explorer, buccaneer and privateer. A ship's surgeon, Wafer made several voyages to the South Seas and visited Maritime Southeast Asia in 1676. In 1679 he sailed again as a surgeon, soon after settling in Jamaica to practise his profession. In 1680, Wafer was recruited by buccaneer Edmund Cooke to join a privateering venture under the leadership of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, where he met William Dampier at Cartagena. After being injured during an overland journey, Wafer was left behind with four others in the Isthmus of Darien in Panama, where he stayed with the Cuna Indians. He gathered information about their culture, including their shamanism and a short vocabulary of their language. He studied the natural history of the isthmus. The following year, Wafer left the Indians promising to return and marry the chief's sister and bring back dogs from England. He fooled the buccaneers at first as he was dressed as an Indian, wearing body-paint and ornamented with a nose-ring. It took them some time to recognise him. Wafer reunited with Dampier, and after privateering with him on the Spanish Main until 1688, he settled in Philadelphia. By 1690 Wafer was back in England and in 1695 he published A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America, which described his adventures. It was translated into French (1706), German (1759), and Swedish (1789). The Darien Company hired him as an adviser when it was planning its settlement on the isthmus in 1698. He died in London in 1705. (en)
  • Lionel Wafer (1640-1705) est un boucanier gallois et corsaire anglais actif dans les années 1670 et 1680, avec un statut de chirurgien, qui a raconté ses aventures dans deux ouvrages très populaires : Nouveau voyage autour du monde, contenant une description très exacte de l'isthme d'Amérique et toute la Nouvelle-Espagne et Voyage de Guillaume Dampier, aux Terres Australes, à la nouvelle Hollande. (fr)
  • Лайонел Уэйфер (1640—1705) — валлийский исследователь новых земель, пират, капер, хирург и судовой врач. (ru)
  • Лайоне́л Ве́йфер (англ. Lionel Wafer; 1640—†1705) — валійський дослідник нових земель, пірат і хірург. Він відомий своїми плаваннями як корабельний хірург на кораблі пірата Вільяма Дампіра, а також детальним описом Панамського перешийку, де він провів кілька років. Іменем Вейфера зараз названа одна з найбільших заток острова Кокос. (uk)
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  • Lionel Wafer (1640-1705) est un boucanier gallois et corsaire anglais actif dans les années 1670 et 1680, avec un statut de chirurgien, qui a raconté ses aventures dans deux ouvrages très populaires : Nouveau voyage autour du monde, contenant une description très exacte de l'isthme d'Amérique et toute la Nouvelle-Espagne et Voyage de Guillaume Dampier, aux Terres Australes, à la nouvelle Hollande. (fr)
  • Лайонел Уэйфер (1640—1705) — валлийский исследователь новых земель, пират, капер, хирург и судовой врач. (ru)
  • Лайоне́л Ве́йфер (англ. Lionel Wafer; 1640—†1705) — валійський дослідник нових земель, пірат і хірург. Він відомий своїми плаваннями як корабельний хірург на кораблі пірата Вільяма Дампіра, а також детальним описом Панамського перешийку, де він провів кілька років. Іменем Вейфера зараз названа одна з найбільших заток острова Кокос. (uk)
  • Lionel Wafer (1640–1705) was a Welsh explorer, buccaneer and privateer. A ship's surgeon, Wafer made several voyages to the South Seas and visited Maritime Southeast Asia in 1676. In 1679 he sailed again as a surgeon, soon after settling in Jamaica to practise his profession. In 1680, Wafer was recruited by buccaneer Edmund Cooke to join a privateering venture under the leadership of Captain Bartholomew Sharp, where he met William Dampier at Cartagena. Wafer reunited with Dampier, and after privateering with him on the Spanish Main until 1688, he settled in Philadelphia. (en)
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  • Lionel Wafer (fr)
  • Lionel Wafer (en)
  • Уэйфер, Лайонел (ru)
  • Лайонел Вейфер (uk)
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