Tichiri, Indian settlement, 119;
captured, 131.
Toledo, swords of, 96, 98.
Tom-tom, African drum, 56.
Tubanama, Cacique, 86, 191;
the gold of, 193;
defeats Spaniards, 238.
Tuira, Indian deity, 53.
Tumaco, Indian cacique, 184 et seq., 188.
Tutibara, Indian chief, 235.
Uraba, Gulf of, 23, 33, 92, 99.
Valderrabano, Andres de, notary, 180;
condemned to death, 267.
Valdivia, regidor, sent to Spain, 88, 89;
lost at sea, 90;
his unhappy fate, 94.
Vara, Andres de, chaplain, 172.
Vela, Cape de la, 23.
Weapons of the Spaniards, 95, 96.
Xeres de Los Caballeros, Balboa's birthplace, 8.
Zamudio, alcalde, 39;
mistreats Nicuesa, 44;
sent to Spain, 46;
Balboa's friend at court, 150, 156.
Zemaco, Cacique, 35, 93;
defeats Spaniards, 114.
Zenu, province of, 237.
THE END
FOOTNOTES:
[1] This was the hurricane predicted by Columbus, as narrated in his
_Life_ by the author of this biography, and it occurred in 1502. For the
further adventures of La Cosa, see the _Life of Amerigo Vespucci_, in
this series.
[2] Calaboose, from Spanish _Calabozo_, a dungeon or prison.
[3] Don Manuel Josef Quintana, _Vidas de Espanoles Celebres_.
[4] By a curious _lapsus_ in Keat's otherwise perfect poem, _On First
Looking into Chapman's Homer_, Cortes, conqueror of Mexico, is
substituted for Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific--
"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies,
When a new planet swims into his ken,
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific--and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise--
Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
Cortes was never at Darien, nor nearer to it than Honduras, or Santo
Domingo.
End of Project Gutenberg's Vasco Nunez de Balboa, by Frederick Albion Ober