Panama and the canal . dealers for about thirty four hundred thousand bunches have been shippednorth from Colon in one season, and thousands more areused on the Isthmus for food. Of late years, however, ba-nanas are shipped from Bocas del Toro instead of fromColon. In Panama, too, grow delicious oranges, papayas (a fruit OTHER TROPICAL FRUITS 57 similar to melons but grown on trces\ pineapples, limes,bread-fruit, mangoes, and scores of other tropical fruitswith which we are less fami-liar. Xature has been verygenerous here with her fruits,—so much so, in fact, thatthe natives can
Panama and the canal . dealers for about thirty four hundred thousand bunches have been shippednorth from Colon in one season, and thousands more areused on the Isthmus for food. Of late years, however, ba-nanas are shipped from Bocas del Toro instead of fromColon. In Panama, too, grow delicious oranges, papayas (a fruit OTHER TROPICAL FRUITS 57 similar to melons but grown on trces\ pineapples, limes,bread-fruit, mangoes, and scores of other tropical fruitswith which we are less fami-liar. Xature has been verygenerous here with her fruits,—so much so, in fact, thatthe natives can live on them\\ith little or no effort. Butthe cocoanuts and bananasarc the most abundant andmost characteristic of theIsthmus. A Panama poet haswritten an interesting littlepoem which descriljcs theland in which he Ha-cs. Thelirst stanza of the poem is at the l)eginning of this chapter. It would l)e easy to learnand might help us to remember some of the more importantthings tliat we shall notice on a visit to Papayas. CHAPTER VI NATIVES AND ANIMALS Where vegetation grows with such great luxuriance, weare not surprised to find also an abimdance of animal have, no doubt, already noticed the great black vultures sailing about far upin the sky. Ande\erywhere amongthe trees we comeupon countless num-bers of birds ofall sizes and brightcolors. The mostnoticeable are thegayly colored par-rots and their rela-tives the brilliant-crested the swamps andstreams are the peli-cans and great blue herons. But we shall fmd the forestsstrangely silent and shall miss the song birds that make glad our northern woods and fields. It seems to be almost a rule 58
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