They found him in the wildest of the wild region of the Sierra Madre del Sur, far away beyond the Rio de las balsas, beyond Michoacan, in the impassable tierra caliente of the Pacific slope.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
I have before mentioned the delicious fruits that may be found in abundance in the city; and I described the curious balsas, on board of which the natives navigate the coasts and rivers.
"On the Banks of the Amazon"
W.H.G. Kingston
The place was very busy, and far more people were moving about than I had been accustomed to see at Quito; and in the harbour were a number of vessels-large ships and small ones, and curious rafts, on which the natives were sailing or paddling about, called balsas.
"On the Banks of the Amazon"
W.H.G. Kingston