Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . #**^. .||% ^-^•^•. THE PELICANS IN THE BAY OE PANAMA I04 PANAMA AND THE CANAL only man who knew anything about the expedition,was permitted to accompany it only as an ordinarysettler. Graft stepped in and though the colonistspaid for six months provisions they discovered whenfar out at sea that they had but enough for nobody on the ships knew where theywere going to settle, for they sailed under sealedorders. When these were opened • and the tidings Spaniards from the land. But illness held the 900colonists gripped, and malaria, the r
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . #**^. .||% ^-^•^•. THE PELICANS IN THE BAY OE PANAMA I04 PANAMA AND THE CANAL only man who knew anything about the expedition,was permitted to accompany it only as an ordinarysettler. Graft stepped in and though the colonistspaid for six months provisions they discovered whenfar out at sea that they had but enough for nobody on the ships knew where theywere going to settle, for they sailed under sealedorders. When these were opened • and the tidings Spaniards from the land. But illness held the 900colonists gripped, and malaria, the ruling pest ofthose tropical shores, is not wont to stimulate amilitant spirit. They had settled on the Atlanticcoast in the Darien region, as far from the richtraffic of the East Indies as though they were intheir old Caledonian homes. Curiously enoughthey made no effort to get across to the Pacific, ^^ {f ^^%- .g^^f^ ^^ -?-[isi^Br ^ ?^« 1^ ?wm |B \M llj^ L & ,\. ?. >3b p^ H ROAD FROM PANAMA TO LA BOCA spread that Panama and not the East Indie
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