Panama and the canal . Vasco Nunez de Balboa. 14 A CENTER OF WORLD INTEREST. Map III.—The Spaniards Settle est Panama. NICUESA iS were left far behind, to the disgust of the captain, outcrawled the gay Balboa from his barrel. Surel} his couragedeser\ed a better fate than was in store for him at Panama. San Sebastian was relieved, its survivors deserted theunhappv spot, and joinedthe new-comers to build anew town called Santa^laria. It was the hrst onthe Isthmus. The ener-getic Balboa soon becamethe leader of this settle-ment (:\lap III). Terril^le misfortunesalso befell Nicuesas mad
Panama and the canal . Vasco Nunez de Balboa. 14 A CENTER OF WORLD INTEREST. Map III.—The Spaniards Settle est Panama. NICUESA iS were left far behind, to the disgust of the captain, outcrawled the gay Balboa from his barrel. Surel} his couragedeser\ed a better fate than was in store for him at Panama. San Sebastian was relieved, its survivors deserted theunhappv spot, and joinedthe new-comers to build anew town called Santa^laria. It was the hrst onthe Isthmus. The ener-getic Balboa soon becamethe leader of this settle-ment (:\lap III). Terril^le misfortunesalso befell Nicuesas made a landing onthe Isthmus and built a set-tlement which they callerlNombrc de Dios (Nombra-da-Deos)—Xame ofGod. In a few months, ofseven hundred men, onlyNicuesa and sixty-nineothers were left. Scarcely a white settlement in all America can show a more dreadfulrecord of death,—nine dead out of every ten. And Nicuesawith the sixty-nine had Ijecome filthy and horrible tobehold, and nearly mad for lack of food. At last, in two
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