Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 426
lements are of importance to us inbuilding the canal, as we shall presently see. In the meanwhile, Nunez de Balboa, hearingfrom the Indians of a great sea to the southward,had crossed the isthmus and discovered the Pa-cific. He called it that because the Bay of Pan-ama, which was the part he saw,… … A BIT OF OLD PANAMA. Indian word meaning plenty of fish, and it wasbecause they felt sure that they could always findfood in this spot, that the Spaniards founded 304 THE STORY OF PANAMA [Feb., on the shore of the bay the city of Panama in I5I9- It was from Panama that Pizarro sailed southto the…
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