Lionel Wafer

A ship's surgeon, Wafer made several voyages to the South Seas and visited Maritime Southeast Asia in 1676.

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.

[1] After being injured by a flash-ignition of gunpowder during an overland journey, Wafer was left behind with four others in the Isthmus of Darien in Panama, where he stayed with the Guna people.

The following year, Wafer left the Guna promising to return and marry the chief's sister and bring back dogs from England.

It was translated into French (1706), German (1759), Swedish (1789) [citation needed], and Spanish (1899) by the Vicente Resptrepo (aresident of New Granada) as "Viajes de Lionel Wafer al Istmo del Darién.