Always traveling with his dog Leoncico (lee-on-SEE-koe), he had escaped an unssuccessful stint as a pig farmer on Hispaniola by sneaking onto a boat run by Diego de Nicuesa (nee-KWAY-sah), the founder of Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darien, which was the first permanent European settlement in South America

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1. Always traveling with his dog Leoncico (lee-on-SEE-koe), he had escaped an unssuccessful stint as a pig farmer on Hispaniola by sneaking onto a boat run by Diego de Nicuesa (nee-KWAY-sah), the founder of Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darien, which was the first permanent European settlement in South America