Robert Remini
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 19 Sep
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Balboa and Magellan, 1513-14
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.
He called it the South Sea.
This was in 1513.
Seven years later, in 1520, Magellan, a Portuguese seaman in the service of the Spanish king, sailed through the Straits of Magellan and entered the same great ocean, which he called the Pacific.
Thence, northward and westward, he sailed day after day, week after week, and month after month, until he reached the Philippine Islands.
The natives killed Magellan, but one of his vessels found her way back to Spain around the Cape of Good Hope.
End of Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Spanish and French Pioneers in the United States 10
Stories of Golden Lands Wherever the Spaniards went, the Indians always told them stories of golden lands somewhere else.
The Bahama Indians, for instance, told their cruel Spanish masters of a wonderful land toward the north.
Not only was there gold in that land, there was also a fountain whose waters restored youth and vigor to the drinker.
Among the fierce Spanish soldiers was Ponce de Leon.
He determined to see for himself if these stories were true.
In the same year that Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean, Pons de Leon sailed northward and westward from the Bahamas.
On Easter Sunday, 1513, he anchored off the shores of a new land.
The Spanish name for Easter was La Pascua de Flores.
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