introduction
In the early stages of the Spaniards' conquest of the Americas, "Dobaíba" was the dream of many Spanish explorers, according to some Indians around the place, the local temples contained all the gold, pearls and other treasures that the surrounding Indian tribes had dedicated to the gods for countless centuries. Therefore, among Spanish explorers, there has always been a widespread legend that Dobaíba has hidden a huge treasure of gold, and the difficulties of exploring the dobay.
Compared to other places that were easily conquered by the Spaniards, Dobaíba was quite a dangerous place. The danger of Dobaíba is mainly divided into several aspects, first of all, the local environment is very harsh, Dobaiba is full of wet swampy lowlands, all kinds of reptiles are infested, and all kinds of huge crocodiles and pythons are particularly rampant, and from time to time they plunder people and livestock on the shore.
And because of the local humid environment, the local midges and vampire mosquitoes gather in clumps, from a distance, as if the lake is on fire and igniting smoke, do not underestimate these small flying insects, they can spread the most headache, the most invincible malaria epidemic, this disease can even make an entire tribe of people live and die tragically. There are also huge bats in the area, which are said to suck human blood like vampires, and even legend has it that there are dragons living in the depths of the dark swamp (probably giant forest grasshoppers more than ten meters long!).
Compared with other Indian tribes encountered by the Spaniards in the Americas, many Indians in Dobaíba were very brave and good at war, and were particularly good at water warfare, and also knew tactical tactics, liked to ambush and raid the enemy. The famous Spanish explorer Basque Núñez de Barboa, during the second Doba iba expedition suffered heavy losses from the local Indians, suffered heavy losses, and was hunted down and killed all the way, so that he could hang in Doba iba.
flee
In 1515, in order to plunder wealth and fame, Balboa, at the behest of the colonial governor, led a powerful expedition of two hundred Spanish explorers to explore Dobaíba for the second time.
During his first exploration of Dobaíba, Balboa, lacking supplies and failing to find local guides, eventually had to give up after raiding an empty Indian village, which Balboa has always hated. So for the second exploration trip, he was very attentive, but this time the exploration had just begun not long ago.
The expedition was raided by local Indians in a river channel, when countless Indian warriors, led by tribal chiefs, drove canoes towards Balboa and others, shooting arrows as dense as sardines, and some Indian warriors jumped directly into the water with the Spaniards in their arms, drowning the enemy with their good water characteristics.
In the end, under the efforts of the Indians, Balboa and the others were defeated and lost, and the two-hundred-man expedition was at least half killed, even Balboa's deputy died at the hands of the Indians, and Balboa himself was injured. The Spanish explorers, who were lucky enough to escape, struggled to escape ashore, but their danger was not lifted.
The Indians, who hated the Spaniards, chased and blocked the enemy like hunting, and attacked from time to time, but because the battlefield had moved to land, Balboa, after pacifying the people, successfully repelled the Indian attacks one by one with advanced weapons and armor, and then built a defensive line with the bodies of the Indians killed and the materials such as trees and stones, and firmly held a point until night fell.
Due to the excessive energy expended during the day, the Spanish explorers were so tired that they had to take turns lying in the defensive line to rest, using the corpses of Indians as beds and armor shields as quilts. It wasn't until the wee hours of the morning that they quietly got up and fled into the depths of the forest.
Because the battle was too urgent, Balboa and the others fled for their lives too hastily, the Spanish explorers could not carry much food, but could only run away hungry, and walked around the forest for eight days, and then they accidentally found a small Indian village, and after checking that there were not many young adults inside, they immediately rushed into it and looted for food.
In the village, Balboa and others scavenged a lot of sweet potatoes, and when even if the fire roasted a lot, and even some people were so hungry that they began to nibble on the raw sweet potatoes directly, everyone present felt that these sweet potatoes, which had not been seen in the past, were very delicious at this time, and they did not even bother to say anything, and they only wanted to dry the sweet potatoes.
Fearing that the Indians would continue to pursue themselves, Balboa and the others took a break in the village, hurriedly carried all the sweet potatoes they had scavenged on their backs, and quickly fled into another forest, leaving only the indian corpses in one place, proving that they had come.
Now that the Spaniards have a large number of sweet potatoes, the situation is suddenly much better, and there is no need to worry about hunger, but these sweet potatoes have also brought new troubles. Because the explorers only have one kind of sweet potato to eat, there is no other food to match, so that they often bloat, and then the stomach continues to produce sweet potato flavor exhaust gas discharge, in short, after a few days of escape, they fart are sweet potato flavor, but at this time Balvoa and others have not come out of danger, there is nothing to be embarrassed about.
In the end, after a series of indescribable and dangerous experiences, they were able to break out of the Indian encirclement, climb through the rugged mountains, wade through the creepy dark swamps described in the horror legends, and finally escape back to the colony.