Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . and the Royal Road. Gold hadbeen discovered in California, and now troops ofAmericans fought their way through the jungle, andbreasted the rapids of the Chagres River. Theysought gold as had Pizarro and Cortez, but theysought it with spade and pan, not with sword andmusket. In their wake came the Panama Railroad,a true pioneer of international trade. Then sprungup once more the demand for the waterway acrossthe neck which Columbus had sought in vain. The story of the inception and completion of thecanal is the truly great chapter in the history of
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . and the Royal Road. Gold hadbeen discovered in California, and now troops ofAmericans fought their way through the jungle, andbreasted the rapids of the Chagres River. Theysought gold as had Pizarro and Cortez, but theysought it with spade and pan, not with sword andmusket. In their wake came the Panama Railroad,a true pioneer of international trade. Then sprungup once more the demand for the waterway acrossthe neck which Columbus had sought in vain. The story of the inception and completion of thecanal is the truly great chapter in the history ofPanama. Not all the gold from poor Peru thatPizarro sent across the Isthmus to fatten the coffersof kings or to awaken the cupidity and cunning of Cortez, Pizarro and other flmous Spanish robbers the buccaneers equals what the United States alone and murderers to follow in their quest for the goldof the Incas. As the Spaniards spoiled Peru, so thebuccaneers and other pirates, belonging to foreignnations, robbed and murdered the Spaniards. The. SCENE ON OTOQUE ISLAND, PANAMA BAY has expended to give to the trade of the world thehighway so long and so fruitlessly sought. An actof unselfish bounty, freely given to all the peoplescf the earth, comes to obliterate at last the long record of interna-tional perfidy, pi-racy and plunderwhich is the historyof Panama. This book is be-ing written in thelast days of con-structive work onthe Panama tens of thou-sands of workmen,the hundreds ofofficers are prepar-ing to scatter totheir homes in allparts of the pleasant andhospitable societyof the Zone of whichI have written isbreaking up. Vil- INTRODUCTION
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