The discovery of America . ed at the entrance to the gulf of Uraba andbegan to build a rude town there which he caUedSan Sebastian. The proceedings were Famine. i i i i p • i • soon checked by lamme, and as a pirat-ical fellow named Talavera happened to comealong in a ship which he had stolen, Ojeda con-cluded to embark with him and hurry over tcHispaniola in quest of supplies and reinforce-ments. His party kept their ships, and it wasagreed that if Ojeda should not return within fiftydays they might break up the expedition and gowherever they liked. So Ojeda departed, leavingin temporary comm
The discovery of America . ed at the entrance to the gulf of Uraba andbegan to build a rude town there which he caUedSan Sebastian. The proceedings were Famine. i i i i p • i • soon checked by lamme, and as a pirat-ical fellow named Talavera happened to comealong in a ship which he had stolen, Ojeda con-cluded to embark with him and hurry over tcHispaniola in quest of supplies and reinforce-ments. His party kept their ships, and it wasagreed that if Ojeda should not return within fiftydays they might break up the expedition and gowherever they liked. So Ojeda departed, leavingin temporary command an Estremaduran namedFrancisco Pizarro, of whom we shall have more tosay. THE CONQUEST OF PERU. 369 The unfortunate commander never a voyage anything but agreeable in com-pany with Talaveras ruffians, the stolen ship waswiecked on the coast of Cuba. In course of timeOjeda, sadly the worse for wear, got Death ofback to San Domingo, but long before ^^^^that time his party had been scattered, and he had. SOUTH s e /I no means of making a fresh start. He died atSan Domingo in abject misery, in 1515. While the shipwrecked Ojeda was starving onthe coast of Cuba, a couple of ships, with horses,food, and ammunition, started from San Domingoto go to the rehef of San Sebastian. The com-mander was a lawyer, the Bachelor Expedition ofMartin Fernandez de Enciso, after- ^^^o-wards distinguished as a historian and geogra- 370 THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. plier.^ He was a kind of partner in Ojedas enter-prise, having invested some money in it. He wasin many respects an estimable person, but hardlyfitted for the work to which he had put his hand,for he was made of red tape, without a particle oftact about him. Among the barrels in Encisosship was one that contained neither bread norgunpowder, but a handsome and penniless youngcavalier who had contrived this way of escapingAppearance fioni liis Creditors. This was Vascoof Balboa. Nuiicz dc Balboa, who in spite of thisundignif
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