Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE TEETH OF THE TROPICSSkeletonized jaws of a Bayano river crocodile FLUSH TIMES IN PORTO BELLO NATIVE UKLUijL UN JUL DARiLN the cries of the muleteers were seldom stilled. Indianssometimes raided the trail and cut out a loaded muleor two, and the buccaneers at one time, finding rob-bery by sea monotonous, landed and won rich bootyby raiding a treasure caravan. The bulkier articlesof commerce were packed in carts at Panama andsent to Venta Cruz where they were transferredto flat boats, and taken down the river to SanLorenzo and thence to Por
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE TEETH OF THE TROPICSSkeletonized jaws of a Bayano river crocodile FLUSH TIMES IN PORTO BELLO NATIVE UKLUijL UN JUL DARiLN the cries of the muleteers were seldom stilled. Indianssometimes raided the trail and cut out a loaded muleor two, and the buccaneers at one time, finding rob-bery by sea monotonous, landed and won rich bootyby raiding a treasure caravan. The bulkier articlesof commerce were packed in carts at Panama andsent to Venta Cruz where they were transferredto flat boats, and taken down the river to SanLorenzo and thence to Porto Bello by sea. Whenthe galleons had cast anchor at that port, and themerchants and caravans were all arrived the littletown took on an air of bustle and excitement as-tonishing to the visitor who had seen it in the hoursof its normal life. The spectator, says Alcedo, who had justbefore been considering Porto Bello in a poor, un-peopled state, without a ship in the port and breath- ing nothing but misery and wretchedness, wouldremain thunderstruck at beholding the strangealteration which takes place at the time of thisfair. Now he would see
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