Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . t the boughs droop. The fruit is seldom liked by others than natives 6o PANAMA AND THE CANAL which had been arranged and announced as anaffair of state. In a rage Pedrarias determined to put an end toBalboa. Accordingly he wrote a pleasant letter,beseeching him to come to Santa Maria for a con-ference. That Balboa came willingly is evidenceenough that he had no guilty knowledge of any he reached his destination however he wasmet by Pizarro with an armed guard who arrestedhim. No word of his could change the prearranged name more than a
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . t the boughs droop. The fruit is seldom liked by others than natives 6o PANAMA AND THE CANAL which had been arranged and announced as anaffair of state. In a rage Pedrarias determined to put an end toBalboa. Accordingly he wrote a pleasant letter,beseeching him to come to Santa Maria for a con-ference. That Balboa came willingly is evidenceenough that he had no guilty knowledge of any he reached his destination however he wasmet by Pizarro with an armed guard who arrestedhim. No word of his could change the prearranged name more than any other mans deserves to belinked with that of Columbus in the history of theIsthmus of Panama. It was in 1517, and Balboawas but forty-two years old. Had the bungling and cruel Pedrarias never beensent to the Isthmus that part of the country knownas the Darien might by now be as civilized as theChiriqui province. As it was, the thriving settle-ments of Ada and Antigua languished and disap-peared, and the legacy of hatred left by the Indians. NATIVE HUT AND OPEN-AIR KITCHEN program. He was tried but even the servile courtwhich convicted him recommended mercy, whichthe malignant Pedrarias refused. Straightway,upon the verdict the great explorer, with four of hismen condemned with him, was marched to thescaffold in the Plaza, where stood the block. In aneighboring hut, pulling apart the wattled canes ofwhich it was built that he might peer out whilehimself unseen Pedrarias gloated at the sight of theblood of the man whom he hated with the insanehatred of a base and malignant soul. There theheads of the four were stricken off, and with thestroke died Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the man whose of that day is so persistent that the white man hasnever been able to establish himself on the easternend of the Isthmus. Fate has dealt harshly with the memory of , in his best known and most quoted sonnet,gives credit for his discovery to Cortez. Localtradition has bestowed his name
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