ABSTRACT
In the year 1514 Pedrarias de Avila, who had been appointed governor of the mainland called Castilla del Oro, 1
1 Pedrarias was among the candidates for the appointment of governor of Darien, and received it through the favour of the bishop of Burgos. “ He was an elderly man, of rank and high connections, of much repute in war, having served with honour in Africa. From his feats in the tournament he had acquired the name of justador (the jouster).” He was a suspicious, fiery, arbitrary old man. Helps, i, p. 374.
