Accompanied by a small band of followers

he began to tread the almost impenetrable forests of the Isthmus of Darien, and, guided by an Indian chief, named Ponca, clambered up the rugged gorges of the mountains. At length, after a toilsome and dangerous journey, Balboa and his companions approached, on Sept. 25, the summit of the mountain range, when Balboa, leaving his followers at a little distance behind, and advancing alone to the W. declivity, was the first to behold the vast unknown ocean, which he afterward took solemn po e iou of in the name of his sovereign, and named it the Pacific Ocean, from the apparent quietude of its waters, Surrounded by his followers, he walted into it, carrying in his right hand a naked sword, and in his left the banner of Castile, and declared the sea of the South, and all the regions whose shores it bathed, to aye to the crown of Castile and Leon. ur: ing his absence, however, a new governor had been appointed to supersede Balboa in Haiti; where, on_his return, jealousy and _ di ensions springing up between them, Balboa, accused of a design to rebel, was beheaded in 1517, in violation of all forms of justice. <A _ beef dre ed whole, as is done in an election campaign.