Vasco, Our Little Panama Cousin

. As it approached Matachin Mr. Andre

t hill that is?"

, s

try. Cerro Gigante, or Big Hill, is its name, and from its summit was gained the f

elped to build the city of Panama. I

en he first sighted the broad blue Pacific, which he called the 'Sea of the South.' At the head of a little band of tired Spaniards he toiled

used, and he asked Mr. Andrews to tell

uch about Balboa, but I am ve

ou see he was just coming to young manhood when the wonderful d

ome poor. A few years after the discovery of America he s

ngo, and undertook to make his living by farming. In this he failed. Soon his savings were spent, and he found himse

he run away?

from the island unobserved. Finally, however, he made a desperate effort. He placed himself in a cas

as exceedingly angry. The captain relented, however, after he had

first he was unsuccessful and results were not promising, but on a visit to the Isthmus muc

companions, a few years later, sailed for Peru, whence such fabulous wealth was carried back to Spain.

oncluded his story

ed his daughter. More than that, unlike a lot of Spanish explorers, he really loved his Indian

inally killed, th

of a jealous governor of the

er all he had done for h

e way Spain often dealt with her adventurous explorers. Many

ion. Bohio was a special point of interest, for here, as Mr. Andrews told the boys, the canal is to enter the artificial lake to be formed by a g

after the train passed through Monkey Hill, a subur