Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . PROCLAIMING A LAW AT DAVID 302 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. DESPOILING OLD GUAYMI GRAVES a high bluff bordering a bay that affords excellentanchorage. Whales are plentiful in these watersand Pacific whalers are often seen in port. SanMiguel, the largest town of the archipelago, is onRey Island and has about looo inhabitants. Thetower of its old church is thickly inlaid with glisten-ing, pearly shell. The pearl fisheries have been overworked foryears, perhaps centuries, and begin to show signsof being exhausted. Nevertheless the tourist whotakes the trip
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . PROCLAIMING A LAW AT DAVID 302 PANAMA AND THE CANAL. DESPOILING OLD GUAYMI GRAVES a high bluff bordering a bay that affords excellentanchorage. Whales are plentiful in these watersand Pacific whalers are often seen in port. SanMiguel, the largest town of the archipelago, is onRey Island and has about looo inhabitants. Thetower of its old church is thickly inlaid with glisten-ing, pearly shell. The pearl fisheries have been overworked foryears, perhaps centuries, and begin to show signsof being exhausted. Nevertheless the tourist whotakes the trip to the islands from the City of Panamawill find himself beset by children as he lands offer-ing seed pearls in quantities. Occasionally real bar-gains may be had from beach combers not onlyat Rey Island, but even at Taboga, where I knew anAmerican visitor to pick up for eleven dollars threepearls valued at ten or twelve times as much whenshown in the United States. There are stories oflucky finds among divers that vie with the tales ofnuggets among gold prospectors. Once a nativeboy diving for
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