. Pacific shores from Panama . siognomy all its own. Some are but a collectionof tropical shacks shaded by cocoanut palms; othershave a prosperous air displayed in their mountainsof coffee-sacks and bags of sugar; others again wearan ugly face devoid even of the interest of Cruz is certainly one of these, for no elementof beauty can be found in its windy, sand-sweptstreets. But she has dressed her unattractive facein very neat and business-like clothes—her excellentwharves and docks, built by a great English corpora-tion, equipped with all the modern machinery andappliances th
. Pacific shores from Panama . siognomy all its own. Some are but a collectionof tropical shacks shaded by cocoanut palms; othershave a prosperous air displayed in their mountainsof coffee-sacks and bags of sugar; others again wearan ugly face devoid even of the interest of Cruz is certainly one of these, for no elementof beauty can be found in its windy, sand-sweptstreets. But she has dressed her unattractive facein very neat and business-like clothes—her excellentwharves and docks, built by a great English corpora-tion, equipped with all the modern machinery andappliances that are lacking even in some of our mostup-to-date American ports. Electric cranes, runningeasily on tracks, swing their giant arms in air, lift-ing from the ships holds great handfuls of bales and [270] THE ISTHMUS TO THE GOLDEN GATE boxes and emptying them directly, as the case maybe, either into freight cars standing ready to takethem across the Isthmus to the Gulf or into solidwarehouses ranged along the quay. Salina Cruz.
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