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Excerpt from Lives of Vasco Nunez De Balboa, and Francisco Pizarro: From the Spanish of Don Manual Josef Quintana Bmtidas, of whose voyage a summary relation may be found in the third volume of the work published by the Senor Navarrete, obtained no celebrity, either as a discoverer or as a conqueror; yet his memory should be cherished by every friend to justice and humanity, as having been one of the few who treated the Indians with gentleness and equity, considering their territory rather as an object of mercantile speculation between equals, than as a field for glory and conquest. He was, says Las Casas, ever known to treat the Indians kindly, and is grossly injured by those who say otherwise. Nor is the opinion of Antonia de Herrera less advan tageous and in his whole voyage he was never known to commit the slightest violence on the Indians. These principles of modera tion caused his death. Being governor of Santa Marta, he was assassinated by his ferocious companions, because he restrained them from robbing and destroying at their pleasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.