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Old Panama and Castilla del Oro

 
HOLLIS Number
Contributors
Anderson, Charles L. G. (Charles Loftus Grant), 1863-1952
Publication
Washington: Press of the Sudwarth Company, 1911

Description

Digital Facsimile

Full Title: Old Panama and Castilla del Oro : a narrative history of the discovery, conquest, and settlement by the Spaniards of Panama, Darien, Veragua, Santo Domingo, Santa Marta, Cartagena, Nicaragua, and Peru: including the four voyages of Columbus to America, the discovery of the Pacific ocean by Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, a description of the aborigines of the isthmus, accounts of the search for a strait through the New world and early efforts for a canal, the daring raids of Sir Francis Drake, the buccaneers in the Caribbean and south seas, the sack of the city of Old Panama by Henry Morgan, and the story of the Scots colony on Caledonia bay : with maps and illustrations

xv, 559 p., [42] leaves of plates : ill., ports., maps (2 fold.) ; 25 cm.

 

Language

English
 

Subject

Panama -- History; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish