"Balboa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Nunez de Balboa took charge of Uraba. On his arrival he found that matters on the Gulf of Darien had reached a desperate pitch. As the fortunes of the Spaniards had waned, the confidence of the Indians had increased. There is no doubt that the majority of men would have recoiled from the task which faced Balboa ...
— South America • W. H. Koebel
... Bacon, John F. Bacon, Samuel Baker, F.B. Balboa Baltimore Banbaras Bankson, John Banneker, Benjamin Baptists, churches and schools Baptist Young People s Union Barbadoes Barbour, Capt. Barbour, Dan Barclay, Arthur Barlow, Joel Bassa Trading Association Bassa tribe Bassett, Ebenezer Batson, Flora Baxter, Richard Beecher, Henry ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley
... in relation to the country. General Fremont, too, like a great many explorers, got puffed up with his own importance, and when, on the 6th of September, 1846, he saw for the first time the Great Salt Lake, he compares himself to Balboa, when that famous Spaniard gazed upon the Pacific. Fremont, too, says that he was the first to sail upon its saline waters, but again, as in many of his statements, he commits an unpardonable error; for Bridger's truthful story of the old trappers who explored it in search ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman |
