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...Arthur S. Aiton Vasco Núñez de Balboa . By Quintana Manuel José . [ Colección Buen Aire, 63 .] ( Buenos Aires : Emecé Editores, S. A. [Platt, S. A.] , 1945 . Pp. 110 . $3.00 m/arg.) Copyright 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 ...

...Herbert Ingram Priestley Copyright 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 Sails and Swords; being the Golden Adventures of Balboa and his intrepid Company, Freebooters all, Discoverers of the Pacific . By Strawn Arthur . ( New York : Brentano’s , 1928 . Pp. 341 . $3.50 .) ...

...Francis Borgia Steck Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 Life and Letters of Vasco Núnez de Balboa . By Anderson Charles L. G. M.D. ( New York : Fleming H. Bevell Company , 1941 . Pp. 368 . $3.50 .) ...

...C. Harvey Gardiner Balboa of Darien: Discoverer of the Pacific . By Romoli Kathleen . Garden City, New York , 1953 . Doubleday and Company . Maps, Appendixes, Bibliography. Index . $5.00 . Copyright 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 ...

...Manuel P. Servin Balboa . By Farrington Robert . New York , 1963 . Avon Book Division . The Hearst Corporation . Pp. 192 . Paper . $ .50 . Copyright 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Robert Farrington has made a judicious selection of historical personages and events...

...Robert H. Fuson La ruta de Balboa y el descubrimiento del Océano Pacífico . By Rubio Ángel . México , 1965 . Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia . Illustrations. Notes. Appendices . Pp. xv , 133 . Paper. $1.50 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967...

... excavation, covering more than four hundred years of dreams, frustration, and achievement in linking the Atlantic and the Pacific. He relates the well-known colonial stories of Balboa, the Spanish effort to maintain a monopoly on the Isthmus, and the adventures of Drake and the buccaneers. The travels...

... on the attempts by Nicuesa and Ojeda to settle Castilla del Oro and Nueva. Andalucía. After all, these were the first two Spanish governors for the mainland, and it was from these expeditions that emerged Balboa, Pizarro, and (indirectly) Cortés. The period after about 1515 seems to be handled with more...

... the scientist account for the numerous albinos among the San Blas instead of attributing them to “European blood … from the Spanish era” (p. 55). Balboa, “the fencing master” did not hide in a barrel to escape from Spain (p. 24) but to escape his creditors in Santo Domingo. Apparently the author is not aware...

... will miss these two topics in some of the contributions. Juan Pimentel inquires into the recurring omission of actors who contributed to the “discovery” of the Pacific Ocean (p. 1). First, the Amerindian contribution to the Vasco Núñez de Balboa expedition was eclipsed. Later, Balboa erased their presence...

... by Rebecca J. Scott, Imilcy Balboa Navarro, and Robert Whitney. Scott addresses the transition from slavery to a free labor market and the struggles for expanded citizenship in the sugar district of Cienfuegos between 1886 and 1909. Balboa Navarro deals with the social impact of changes in agrarian...

... . Stanford University Press . Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 760 . Cloth. $18.50 . Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 The Pacific is a mighty ocean, and its vastness is incomprehensible to most men. Indeed, this ocean, Balboa’s Mar del Sur , is the largest...

... on settlements in the Darién based on letters of Balboa and a relación by Pascual de Andagoya. 52 Considerable attention has been given to locating the exact site of the first Spanish settlement in Darién, efforts summarized in a 1943 article by the Colombian geographer and historical cartographer Eduardo...

... of Columbus, Núñez de Balboa, Cortés, Magellen, Coronado and includes some detail concerning New Mexico. Section II, entitled Specimen Pioneers, details the feats of Cabeza de Vaca, of little known Andrés Docampo, of the siege and fall of the sky city of Ácoma, of the Spanish missionaries, and of Alvarado’s...

... took it from a single Indian witness in Cuzco, about a hundred years after the supposed event should have taken place. (There cannot be the least doubt that Cabello Balboa takes his version from Sarmiento.) Besides, there were no horses, gold, or Negroes on the Galápagos, articles which the Inca...

... is based on the sole testimony of Sarmiento de Gamboa, who took it from one single Indian witness in Cuzco, about a hundred years after the supposed event should have taken place. (There cannot be the least doubt that Cabello Balboa takes his version directly from Sarmiento; only that the Quito edition...

...C. A. Hauberg One might even question the author’s bibliographical statement that the Panama Collection in the Balboa Heights Library is “by far the most important source” for the period covered. A thorough and scholarly treatment of this period should probably include more significant material...

... Núñez de Balboa, who tortured Indians to make them reveal the source of their gold and threw many Indians accused of sodomy to be eaten by his savage war dogs, is praised for his moderation and avoidance of “the cruelties and horrors that he had seen his countrymen commit in the Antilles” (p. 324...

...) overlooks Juana, as well as Empress Isabel, on whose behalf some documents were written (pp. 103, 135, 152, 190, 209, 328). Documents previously published (no more than 20) and unpublished (about 280) from the Audiencia of Panama for the first two centuries after Balboa come from the Archivo General de...

... a combination of empirical wisdom gained during his pre-1492 maritime career and pure luck. Nunn concludes that Columbus probably did believe he had reached the coast of Asia (so did Balboa). As for the identity of “Florida” on the Cantino map, it probably was not what we know as Florida, and “this land...