Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . tling green. Lions there are, by the talk ofthe natives at least, but when you encounter them they turn out to be mere stunted specimens of ovu*northern wild cat. The deer, rarely met, are dwarfedbut are the largest animals to be found in the jungle,though one hears reports of giant boas. Indeed theremnants of the age of reptiles are large to our eyes,though puny in comparison with the giants thatscientists christened, long centuries after they wereextinct and unable to protest, with such names asichthyosaurus. You will still find lizards or iguan
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . tling green. Lions there are, by the talk ofthe natives at least, but when you encounter them they turn out to be mere stunted specimens of ovu*northern wild cat. The deer, rarely met, are dwarfedbut are the largest animals to be found in the jungle,though one hears reports of giant boas. Indeed theremnants of the age of reptiles are large to our eyes,though puny in comparison with the giants thatscientists christened, long centuries after they wereextinct and unable to protest, with such names asichthyosaurus. You will still find lizards or iguana,three to five feet long, if your search of the junglebe thorough. The tapir, or ant eater, too, grows tohuge size. But it is not dread of wild animals thatkeeps man from penetrating the jungle. The swiftgrowing and impenetrable vegetation blocks the paths as fast as cut, and hewho would seek theCanal Zone must fol-low the oldest of high-ways, the sea. If New York bethe port of departure,several lines offerthemselves to thetraveler, and soon. TREE GROWING OUT OF A CHIMNEY IN JAMAICA 10 PANAMA AND THE CANAL after the canal is opened their number will be in-creased. At present the Panama Railroad Company,owned by the government, maintains a line of shipsmainly for the carriage of supplies and employes ofthe Canal Commission. There is already discussionof the wisdom of abandoning this line after the con-struction work is over, on the ground that theUnited States government has no right to enter intothe business of water transportation in competition ^ ti ?j ? ? i mg^iim^^igg^^^^ggiiggft:^^^^ m ^H H 1 m i^l^l^^^B^^v ^ 1 1 1 1 1 I tj^ ^^^^^ 1 W f^^^m m M f^ ^ H^^ ^ m 1 /? k^ ^^^Ei^^^i ^^^^ ^^^^?^^^^^ V 1 1 *^^%j^^^9H ^1 K,^.^ _^,._=„s«^ ™„ CANE RIVER FALLS with private parties. If sold by the government,however, the line will doubtless be maintained underprivate ownership. The United Fruit Company, anAmerican corporation with an impressive fleet ofships all flying the Britis
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