Avila, Pedro Arias de, sails for Darien, 203; arrives, 206; meets Balboa, 208-211; his jealousy, 212; entertained by Balboa, 213-216; demands an accounting, 217; at open enmity with Balboa, 220-222; plots his destruction, 226; blunders and crimes of, 237; gives Balboa his daughter in marriage, 244; makes peace with Balboa, 247, and sends him to the Pacific, 248; frenzied by tales of Balboa's perfidy, 256, and schemes for revenge, 257; orders him back to Antigua, 260; sends Pizarro to arrest him, 262; visits him in prison, 263; consoles with and then denounces him, 264; places him in double irons, 266; causes sentence of death to be proclaimed, 268, and allows no appeal, 273; orders him beheaded, 277; exults over and witnesses his death, 278. [Avila may be pursued further in the "Lives" of _Pizarro_ and _De Soto_ (of this series), with whose careers he was intimately identified. He died at Leon, in Nicaragua, 1531, at the age of ninety. His eldest daughter, Maria, to whom Balboa was affianced, retired to a convent; the youngest, Isabel, married De Soto, whom she accompanied to Cuba, where she died.] Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de, advent of, 8, 9, 10, 11; farm and major-domo of, 11-14; packed in a cask, 15; appearance of before Enciso, 17-22; his friends, 23-26; advises Enciso, 29, 30; becomes prominent, 34; conspires against Enciso, 38; saves the colony, 47; fine qualities of, 48; in supreme command, 49; captures Careta, 56-60; rescues an Indian girl, 64, with whom he falls in love, 67-69; discovers treasure, 70; spies upon his mistress, 72; sacks Ponca's capital, 78; invades Comogre's province, 79, 80, where he finds gold, 83; first hears of the Pacific, 85; sends gold to King Ferdinand, 88; despatches Valdivia to Spain for reinforcements, 89; invades Dobaybe province, 98, 99; discovers tree-dwellers, 101; in aerial dwellings, 107; tortures Indians, 121; sends Colmenares to Tichiri, 130-140; retreats to forest to avoid dissensions, 143; entreated to return to Antigua, 144-146; in disfavor with the King, 150; commissioned captain-general, 152; sends commissioners to Spain, 155; his intrepidity, 157; projects great expedition, 159; sets out for Austral Ocean, 162; treats with Chief Ponca, 163; in Quaraqua's country, 165; massacres Indians, 168; on verge of discovery, 170; his first sight of the Pacific, 171; on its shores, 174; compared with Columbus, 175; takes possession of Pacific, 179, 180, and embarks on, 182-184; discovers pearls, 189; success with Indians, 196; returns from expedition, 197; popularity of, 198; sovereign's opinion of, 201; superseded by Pedrarias, 203, whom he receives at Antigua, 208-212; his courtesy to Doña Isabel, 211, 212; angers Pedrarias, 216, who demands an accounting, 217; seeks Dobaybe, 227, and fails, 229; appointed adelantado by the king, 230, 231;