This man hid from his creditors by stowing away on a ship in a barrel with his dog.
This man hid from his creditors by stowing away on a ship in a barrel with his dog. This man undertook his most famous feat after the son of the cacique Comagre promised to show this man a place where people ate on plates of gold. This man, who named the Pearl Islands, was beheaded after great difficulty on trumped-up charges invented by his rival Pedrarias after being personally arrested by Francisco (*) Pizarro. This man established Santa Maria de la Antigua at Darien, the first stable settlement in the Americas. Reinforced by a thousand men supplied by his friend Careta, this man waded through dense forest to cross the Isthmus of Panama. For 10 points, name this conquistador, who in 1513 became the first European to see the Pacific.
This man hid from his creditors by stowing away on a ship in a barrel with his dog.
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