The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-02-17

share of the booty" which profited his
master much.
Twelve days 1t took those mail-clad
warriors, preceded by maroons cutting
the way. TO reach the peak. Some
died, from the most pestilential eli
mate in the world;' and there were
skirmishes with the Indians, the same
tribes who are now supposed to bc
allies OF the United States. in spite of
the fact that one great chief, InaDa-
quina, has gone TO Cathagena to bo
entertained by Colombian officers. On
September % 1913 Balboa saw the
sea beyond, the sea that really reached
to the East of Marco Polo. and he sent
Pizarro ahead with scouts, following
himself, wading waist deep into the
surf TO draw his sword and take pos.
session for CASTLE and Leon. Very
near the same spot at Acla. settle.
ment lie founded. Balboa was put
to death for treason. His treason was
that long before he had started. be
had usurped the governors place, and
Spain did not hear of his marvellous
discoveries till a new governor with
to the Isthmus and had fulfilled tho
mission. Pizarro went on down tho
Pacific to the conquest of Peru; and
the gold of The Incas presently came
streaming back and over seas TO Spain.
AT Porto Bello and at Nombre de Dios
are the two split ends of the only path
except the fifty-year.old Panama Rail.
road, which even to this day exists
across this Junction of two continents
The road, though paved with stone
is thick with bush now. Two years
ago a mine owner had forty macheto
men go ahead of him and clear
trail and then by means of many re
lays of mules he made the journey to
Panama i'll twenty hours. Drake
heard of this road in 1870. He heard
Of the gold. silver and pearls that camo
over it for Spain. AT that time tho
port Of departure was Nombre dc Dios,
| just above here. and for that port
Drake left Plymouth. England. with
| two ships and seventy three men. and.
| it is believed, tie sanction of Queen
| Elizabeth. Leaving bis ships out of
sight. he used his pinnaces in scouting,
and found the plate-feet in the harbOr,
| with her escort of three armed galleons,
waiting for the cargo. One night he
rushed the town, old John Oxenham,
who was afterwards banged in Lima
as pirate. his lieutenant. The Spanish
fed. Silver was abundant but Drake
wanted gold and pearls. The Spanish
! returned. for the church bell ringer
was still faithfully pealing the alarm
ana they took courage. Drake was
wounded in the leg, and his men
carried him away inrctreat. For tbreo
years he waited his chance on the Isle
of Pines, taking, meantime. with his
pinnaces, several old ships, cutting out
a treasure ship from her escort at
| Curthagena; and then got word of
| rich train coming down the Panama
road. Yellow fever had killed off all
but forty eight of his men; his surgeon
| had died. too. ''of his own medicines"
The fortfications of Porto Bello are
beautiful. In the style which Vauban
brought to a climax in the days OF
Louis lie soleil OF France, they have
the rampant. the esplanaGe. the Slacis,
and the rest in lovely line and sym.
| metly. Every point commands some
other point; and underneath them is
the dungeon. with one square opening,
| Of historical romance. We found tbD
walls. of course, scrbbed with the
breads and wishes and farewells of in.
Vulnerable prisoners. Ramparts scarce,
ly reached to the waistlEe of a man;
and the sentry boxes, decorative littId
round-topped towers placed FOR archl,
tectural no less than for military effect.
were hardly big enough for a man To
turn around in. Red flowers, long and
slim, like a folded morning glory,
grew in the rife Sits. Small orchids
thrived under the dislocated iron guns
so old that none of the marks telling
the date of manufacture can be deciph.
cred. People who fancy that ancient
ruins are only TO be encountered in tho
Old World should see these of Spanish
America. They are European in char.
acter, with story that seems almost
Asiatic in age. At the other end OF the
towns waterfront stands the walls of
the castle which Morgan sacked and
raped Of its gold and pearls--mak king
the priests and nuns of the place go
ahead to put up scaling ladders and
take the brunt Of the arquebuses.-New
York Evening Post.