Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . oducts of divers sorts i^om the neighboring lands. While this business 4 was in progress, and the newly laden galleons werecreeping along the coast to Nombre de Dios andPorto Bello, word had been sent to Lirna for theplate fleet to come to Panama bearing the tributeto the King—gold stripped from the walls of tem-ples, pearls pried from the eyes of sacred images,ornaments wrested from the arms and necks ofnative women by a rude and ribald soldiery. Withthe plate fleet came also numerous vessels takingadvantage of the convoy, though indeed there was
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . oducts of divers sorts i^om the neighboring lands. While this business 4 was in progress, and the newly laden galleons werecreeping along the coast to Nombre de Dios andPorto Bello, word had been sent to Lirna for theplate fleet to come to Panama bearing the tributeto the King—gold stripped from the walls of tem-ples, pearls pried from the eyes of sacred images,ornaments wrested from the arms and necks ofnative women by a rude and ribald soldiery. Withthe plate fleet came also numerous vessels takingadvantage of the convoy, though indeed there waslittle danger from pirates on the Pacific. The At-lantic, being nearer European civilization, swarmedwith these gentry. At Panama all was transferred to mules and startedfor the Atlantic coast. So great was the volumeof treasure and of goods to be transported that thenarrow trail along which the mules proceeded insingle file, usually100 in a caravanor train, was oc-cupied almostfrom one end tothe other, and thetinkling of themule-bells, and. THE TEETH OF THE TROPICSSkeletonized jaws of a Bayano river crocodile FLUSH TIMES IN PORTO BELLO
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