South American Fights and Fighters

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Title: South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of
Adventure
Author: Cyrus Townsend Brady

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American Fights and Fighters Series
SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS
And Other Tales of Adventure
by
CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, LL. D.
Illustrations by Seymour M. Stone, George Gibbs, W. J. Aylward and J.
N. Marchand
Together with Reproductions from Old Prints and Portraits

[Frontispiece: "The Poor Little Governor . . . Distanced His Fierce
Pursuers at Last"]

Garden City -------- New York Doubleday, Page & Company
MCMXIII All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation into
Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian

Copyright, 1910, by Doubleday, Page & Company Published, April,
1910

To
George William Beatty
Good Fellow, Good Citizen
Good Friend

PREFACE
The first part of this new volume of the American Fights and Fighters
Series needs no special introduction. Partly to make this the same size
as the other books, but more particularly because I especially desired to
give a permanent place to some of the most dramatic and interesting
episodes in our history--especially as most of them related to the
Pacific and the Far West--the series of papers in part second was
included.
"The Yarn of the Essex, Whaler" is abridged from a quaint account
written by the Mate and published in an old volume which is long since
out of print and very scarce. The papers on the Tonquin, John Paul
Jones, and "The Great American Duellists" speak for themselves. The
account of the battle of the Pitt River has never been published in book
form heretofore. The last paper "On Being a Boy Out West" I inserted
because I enjoy it myself, and because I have found that others young
and old who have read it generally like it also.
Thanks are due and are hereby extended to the following magazines for
permission to republish various articles which originally appeared in
their pages: Harper's, Munseys, The Cosmopolitan, Sunset and The
New Era.

I project another volume of the Series supplementing the two Indian
volumes immediately preceding this one, but the information is hard to
get, and the work amid many other demands upon my time, proceeds
slowly.
CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY.
ST. GEORGE'S RECTORY,
Kansas City, Mo., February, 1910.

CONTENTS

PART I
SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS
PAGE
PANAMA AND THE KNIGHTS-ERRANT OF COLONIZATION
I. THE SPANISH MAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 II. THE DON
QUIXOTE OF DISCOVERERS AND HIS RIVAL . . . . 5 III. THE
ADVENTURES OF OJEDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 IV. ENTER ONE
VASCO NUÑEZ DE BALBOA . . . . . . . . . . . 17 V. THE
DESPERATE STRAITS OF NICUESA . . . . . . . . . . 20
PANAMA, BALBOA AND A FORGOTTEN ROMANCE
I. THE COMING OF THE DEVASTATOR . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 II. THE
GREATEST EXPLOIT SINCE COLUMBUS'S VOYAGE . . . . 34 III.
"FUROR DOMINI" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 IV. THE END OF
BALBOA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
PERU AND THE PIZARROS

I. THE CHIEF SCION OF A FAMOUS FAMILY . . . . . . . . . 53 II.
THE TERRIBLE PERSISTENCE OF PIZARRO . . . . . . . . . 57 III. "A
COMMUNISTIC DESPOTISM" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 IV. THE
TREACHEROUS