Identifier: panamacanalinpic01abbo (find matches)
Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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riendes, yea and all the kinges into whose throatesVaschus had thrust his sworde, she opened uppe thematter unto hym, and conceled none of those thingswhich her undiscrete broother had declared untoher. Balboa was never accused of hesitation. Thegirl was forced to reveal her brothers hiding place.He was put to the torture and the information thusextorted enabled the Spaniards to strike at once andstrike hard. With 150 men he went into the Indianterritory of Darien, surprised the natives and putthem to total rout. The almost invariable vic-tories of the Spaniards, except when they were takenby surprise, do not indicate superior valor on theirpart. To begin with they carried fire arms whichaffrighted the Indians as well as slaughtered them.Further, they wore partial armor—leather jerkins,helmets and cuirasses of steel—so that the unhappyaborigines were not only exposed to missiles, thenature of which they could not comprehend, but sawtheir own arrows and javelins fall useless from a
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Canal Commission Photo SPANISH FORT AT ENTRANCE TO PORTO BELLO HARBOR 54 PANAMA AND THE CANAL fairly struck target. In one battle the Indians wereeven reduced to meeting their foes with woodenswords, and, after the inevitable victory, one of thevictors to further impress the vanquished with thefutility of their defensive weapons ordered the fallenchief to stretch forth his right arm, and with oneblow struck it off. The Indians were superstitious. Anything out ofthe ordinary filled them with dread. Many refusedto stand and fight because Balboa rode into battleon a white horse. Some trained blood hounds thatthe Spaniards took into battle with them also terri-fied them. Doing battle with them in the open wasalmost like slaughtering sheep. Only in ambushwere they formidable. It may be noted in passingthat not all the barbarities were on the Spanish side.One of Balboas most trusted lieutenants, Valdivia,was caught in a tempest and his ship wrecked.Those who escaped were captured by the nat

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