Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . p,and even now there is persistent sanitary Canal Zone authorities relinquished to thePanama local officials the paving and sanitationwork of the city, but retained it in Colon, whichserves to indicate the estimate put upon the com-parative fitness for self government of the peopleof the two towns. Down by the docks, if one likes the savor ofspices and the odor of tar, you find the real societyof the Seven Seas. Every variety of ship is there,from the stately ocean liner just in from South-ampton or Havre to the schooner-rigged cayu
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . p,and even now there is persistent sanitary Canal Zone authorities relinquished to thePanama local officials the paving and sanitationwork of the city, but retained it in Colon, whichserves to indicate the estimate put upon the com-parative fitness for self government of the peopleof the two towns. Down by the docks, if one likes the savor ofspices and the odor of tar, you find the real societyof the Seven Seas. Every variety of ship is there,from the stately ocean liner just in from South-ampton or Havre to the schooner-rigged cayucawith its crew of San Bias Indians, down from theirforbidden country with a cargo of cocoanuts, yamsand bananas. A curious craft is the cayuca. Rang-ing in size from a slender canoe twelve feet longand barely wide enough to hold a man to a con-siderable craft of eight-foot beam and perhaps 35to 40 feet on the water line, its many varieties haveone thing in common. Each is hewn out of a singlelog. Shaped to the form of a boat by the universal. A COLON WATER CARRIER
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