One of Encisco's provision casks contained an unusual cargo: Balboa had stowed away to escape his creditors in Hispaniola. Ojeda returned to Hispaniola, leaving his remnant under Francisco Pizarro to wait for the relief expedition of Martin Fernández de Encisco. Within a few months hostile Native Americans, disease, and starvation had reduced their combined forces to less than 100. Ojeda headed for the northern Colombian coast late in 1509 with 300 men, while Nicuesa sailed toward the Panamanian Isthmus with a force numbering over 700. Meanwhile, two would-be conquistadores, Alonso de Ojeda and Diego de Nicuesa, received crown licenses to settle the regions explored by Bastidas. He then settled in Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and tried farming but failed and fell heavily into debt. In 1500 he sailed with Rodrigo de Bastidas on a preliminary reconnaissance of the Colombian and northern Panamanian coasts. To improve his meager fortune, Balboa went to the new Spanish colonies in America. He was descended from an old and noble Galician family. Vasco Núñez de Balboa was born at Jerez de los Caballeros in the province of Estremadura. He was the first Spanish explorer to gain a permanent foothold on the American mainland. 1475-1519) explored Central America and discovered the Pacific Ocean.
The Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa (ca.
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