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 Indian inhabitants ... &c. With remarkable occurrences in the South-sea and elsewhere / By Lionel Wafer.

  • Wafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705?
Date:
1704
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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 Indian inhabitants ... &c. With remarkable occurrences in the South-sea and elsewhere / By Lionel Wafer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in thofe Parts, when they have been at a Landing-place, to fay they have been at the §liiolla, calling it fo in imitation of the Natives ^ as the Portuguefe call their harcadero. Landing-pi a ces, Barcaderds. This War was fome hindrance to our Trade there 5 and we were forc’d to ftay about 4 Months in the Road, before we could get in our Lading of Pepper : And thence we return’d to Ban¬ tam, to take in the reft of our Lading. While I was aftiore there, the Ship fail’d for Eng- > land : So I got a Paflage home in another Ship, the Bombay, Capt. White Commander ; who being Chief Mate, fucceeded Capt. Ben- net., who dy’d in the Voyage. The a’s A I arrived in England again in the Year 2d- v°y* 1679. and after about a Months ftay, I en- age' tred my felf on a Second Voyage, in a Velfel commanded by Capt. Bnchenham, bound for the Wefl-Indies. I was there alfo in the Ser¬ vice of the Surgeon of the Ship : But when Jamaica, we came to Jamaica, the Seafon of Sugars being not yet come, the Captain was willing to make a fhort Voyage, in the mean while to the Bay of Campeachy, to fetch Logwood : But having no mind to go further with him, I ftaid in Jamaica. It proved well for me that I did fo 5 for in that Expedition, the Cap¬ tain was taken by the Spaniards, and carried Prifoner to Mexico : Where one RuJjel faw him, who was then alfo a Prifoner there, and capt. after made his efcape. He told me he Bnckhcn- raw (^w. Bnchttham, with a Log chain’d to j,ams hard * 7 & Fortune, tllS