_Eggleston_, 10-11.] 9.

Balboa and Magellan, 1513, 1520 .-- Balboa was a Spaniard who came to San Domingo to seek his fortune.

He became a pauper and fled away from those to whom he owed money.

After long wanderings he found himself on a high mountain in the center of the Isthmus of Panama.

To the southward sparkled the waters of a new sea.