Vasco Nuñez de Balboa

· 1913

VASCO NUÑEZ DE BALBOA _Frontispiece_ PANAMA, DARIEN, AND THE SOUTH SEA _Facing p._ 1 While Vasco Nuñez de Balboa may be reckoned among the greatest of the minor explorers, yet less has been written of him, perhaps, than of any other in his class except Juan Ponce de Leon. Both names are familiar to every student of history, both are well known even to the casual reader; but both have been strangely neglected by the biographer.…

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