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By Wm. R. S.ott
CHAPTER III.
Th* Spanish In Panama.
'.’ the fourth attempt Columbus
made to tlud u passage to the
East Indies be cruised along I
the isthmian coadt from Sep
tember. 1502. to January, 1503. enter
ing and naming the harbor of* Porto
Bello on Nov. 2. 1502. and visiting
.sombre de Illos on Nov. 9, In what Is
now the republic o f Pauamu.
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Columbus, however, was not the dls-
•ovgier of Panama, as a Spunlurd.
named Itodrlgo de Bust Ides, hud pre
ceded h*m to this coast, in 1501. so that
the period of the Spanish in Panama '
dates from that year. Bustldes visited
Nomine de Dios, where eight years lu-
ter tile first Spanish settlement on the
isthmus was planted, In 1509, us a
base for the search for gold.
Vasco Nunez de B h II mhi had been
with Bastldes on his trip of exploration,
and lie became the head of the new
colony at Panama. For a few years
the mountains with their dense Jungle
growth stood as a barrier to explora
tions farther Inland, hut the stories of
the marvelous wealth of the inhabi
CULEBRA CUT, THROUGH WHICH THE CANAL RUNS.
tants on the other side, told to Balboa
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by the Indians, so excited his cupidity
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that, in 1513. he gathered a burnt of 190 an res- nist.5 .•'.;;i;\"ri'om that year.
r.\ Morgan, if cenTury niter, was an
men and started across.
With tlie founding of a town on the other.
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Baltiou discovered the Pacific on Pacific side begun the liitcrocennic
In KiiiS Henry Morgan collected a
Sept. 25. 1513. Calling his men to him, traffic which ever since has empha motley crew of sea vagabonds with the
they had a religious ceremony, claim sized the need of easier and swifter object of capturing Porto Bello. The
ing ail they surveyed as the dominions communication between the Atlantic operations of the English bmvaneers
and Pacific. At a huge expense of la Usually were plain piracy, lint the»
of his majesty the king o f Spain.
Cold he found in abundance and bor and life a paved road was con justified theuv'lves-in their own minds
pearls of fabulous size and value. Aft structed from Nombre de Dios to Pan by tile quarrelsome state of the re
er five months' absence he returned to ama, portions o f which may tie seen in lations that existed between England
Nombre de Dios by a more direct the canal zone today.
and Spain.
It may he noted that Panama was
course and found that he had been suc
Porto Bello was captured after a
ceeded as governor at Nombre de Dios founded a full hundred years before fight not surpassed in history for in
by a soldier named Pedrarias. Be the landing of the pilgrims at Plym humanities. Tlie treasure they found
tween them a hatred sprang up which, outh. Nombre de Dios was a town here whetted their lust for gold, with
in 1517. resulted in the untimely and ninety-eight years before the first Eng the result that three years later a still
unjust execution o f Ballioa on trumped lish settlement In North America, at bolder enterprise, that of traversing
up charges. Prior to this. Balboa had Jamestown. In 1607. St Augustine. the Isthmus nnd taking Panama, was
made other trips to the Pacific, carry Fla., tlie oldest town In North America, planned. In 1671 Morgan started up
ing across with incredible labor the was not founded until forty-six years the ( hagres river with 1.600 men. and.
parts of ships which were rebuilt In after Panama.
after abandoning that stream, they
After nearly a century at Nombre de struck out overland to Panama. Nine
tlie Pacific. In 1911 the Americans
found a cannon of immense weight Dios the Spanish In the year 15SJ days were consumed in the Journey,
about halfway across, which evidently found Porto Bello a healthier site for with hardship# from hunger and tlie
had been abandoned by Balboa, and a settlement and moved bag and bug- j labor of penetrating the Jungle the
like of which have not been exceeded
an sinchor of great size also has been cage to that Incomparable port.
Porto Bello at once became the depot by soldiers anywhere.
found.
A desperate defense was unavailing.
Pedrarias In 1515 had sent exploring of Spanish treasure accumulated from
parties to the Pacific side to select a I cru or other South and Central Amer- 1 Tlie city was captured, but found to
site for a settlement on that const. lean countries and brought across the ' be barrel! of treasure, as the Spanish
The San Francisco exposition there isthmus from Panama with Incredible j had loaded a ship with their gold and
fore in 1915 will lie exactly 400 years hardship. From this port the Spanish 1 silver before the attack began, and the
after tills event. It was uot until 1519 galleons ran the gantlet o f English ship could not he found. It was an
that tile settlement was started, ami pirates to Spain. Drake had been one j unwise move, because the Infuriated
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