. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. THE name of Balboa is insepar-ably linked with that of thePacific Ocean. His discoverywas, in fact, the first snre proofthat the New World discoveredby Columbus was not, as thatnavigator believed, merely theother coast of Asia, but wasreally a separate continent. Vasco Nuiiez de Balboa wasborn in Xeres, Estremadura,Spain, about the year sprung from a familyof hidalgos, or Spanish gentle-men, he was poor, yet had expensive habits, which, in theearly part of his life, kept him in a state of chronic
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. THE name of Balboa is insepar-ably linked with that of thePacific Ocean. His discoverywas, in fact, the first snre proofthat the New World discoveredby Columbus was not, as thatnavigator believed, merely theother coast of Asia, but wasreally a separate continent. Vasco Nuiiez de Balboa wasborn in Xeres, Estremadura,Spain, about the year sprung from a familyof hidalgos, or Spanish gentle-men, he was poor, yet had expensive habits, which, in theearly part of his life, kept him in a state of chronic indebted-ness. At first he held some position in the house of DonPedro Carrero, a Spanish nobleman of consequence ; butwhen Rodrigo de Bastidas conceived his great project of dis-covery and mercantile enterprise in 1501, Balboa became oneof the expedition. By the year 15 10, Balboa was well established in Hispa-niola (or Hayti), in the settlement of Salvatierra, where hecultivated a farm ; but, having fallen into debt, he resolved toquit the island and tempt fortune in another d
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