Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Ramsay, Photo 62 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. NATIVE HUTS NEAR PORTO BELLOThe Indians of this region are fishermen and famous navigators. They ship on vessels leaving Colon for far distant ports But to return to Porto Bello. Balboas own asso-ciation with that settlement was of the very briefest,but the influence of his discovery was to it all im-portant. For the discovery of the Pacific led tothe conquest of Peru under Pizarro, the founding ofOld Panama and the development at Porto Belloof the port through which all the wealth wrungfrom that hapless land

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Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . Ramsay, Photo 62 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. NATIVE HUTS NEAR PORTO BELLOThe Indians of this region are fishermen and famous navigators. They ship on vessels leaving Colon for far distant ports But to return to Porto Bello. Balboas own asso-ciation with that settlement was of the very briefest,but the influence of his discovery was to it all im-portant. For the discovery of the Pacific led tothe conquest of Peru under Pizarro, the founding ofOld Panama and the development at Porto Belloof the port through which all the wealth wrungfrom that hapless land of the Incas found its At-lantic outlet. The story of Old Panama may be reserved for alater chapter,even thoughthe rise andfall of bothNombre deDios andPorto Bellowere chieflydependent up-on the chiefSpanish cityof the Pacificcoast. Forgreat as wasthe store ofgold, silverand jewels

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