Authority Cited: Wafer
Author name and dates: Lionel Wafer (1650?-1705)
BKG Bio-tweet: Surgeon; travelled with buccaneers; crossed American isthmus; with natives while injured; took King’s pardon; wrote account
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Wafer cite in 1755 Dict. Vol. 1. No additional Wafer cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Wafer Voyage edition used by SJ is unknown; there was a 2nd edition published in 1704.]
A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America, giving an account of the author's abode there the form and make of the country, the coasts, hills, rivers, &c. Woods, soil, weather, &c. trees, fruit, beasts, birds, fish, &c : the Indian inhabitants, their features, complexion, &c. their manners, customs, employments, marriages, feasts, hunting, computation, language, etc. : with remarkable occurrences in the South sea and elsewhere / by Lionel Wafer ; illustrated with several copper-plates, 1699, London: printed for James Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Churchyard; administer [BKG Note: An image is below of the text from which SJ abridged the quotation, perhaps from memory. The Dict. quote reads: "I was carried on men’s shoulders, administering physick and phlebotomy."]
Author name and dates: Lionel Wafer (1650?-1705)
BKG Bio-tweet: Surgeon; travelled with buccaneers; crossed American isthmus; with natives while injured; took King’s pardon; wrote account
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Wafer cite in 1755 Dict. Vol. 1. No additional Wafer cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Wafer Voyage edition used by SJ is unknown; there was a 2nd edition published in 1704.]
A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America, giving an account of the author's abode there the form and make of the country, the coasts, hills, rivers, &c. Woods, soil, weather, &c. trees, fruit, beasts, birds, fish, &c : the Indian inhabitants, their features, complexion, &c. their manners, customs, employments, marriages, feasts, hunting, computation, language, etc. : with remarkable occurrences in the South sea and elsewhere / by Lionel Wafer ; illustrated with several copper-plates, 1699, London: printed for James Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Churchyard; administer [BKG Note: An image is below of the text from which SJ abridged the quotation, perhaps from memory. The Dict. quote reads: "I was carried on men’s shoulders, administering physick and phlebotomy."]
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