Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . ces wherein men are locked away from sight andsubject to the whims of others not so very muchtheir superiors. Once the Chiriqui Prison wasa fortress, the bank of quarters for the prisonersformed the barracks, and the deep archways underthe sea wall were dungeons oft populated by politicalprisoners. Miasma, damp and the brutality ofjailers have many a time brought to occupants ofthose dungeons their final discharge, and a patchof wall near by, with the bricks significantly chipped,is pointed out as the place where others have beenfrom time to time
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . ces wherein men are locked away from sight andsubject to the whims of others not so very muchtheir superiors. Once the Chiriqui Prison wasa fortress, the bank of quarters for the prisonersformed the barracks, and the deep archways underthe sea wall were dungeons oft populated by politicalprisoners. Miasma, damp and the brutality ofjailers have many a time brought to occupants ofthose dungeons their final discharge, and a patchof wall near by, with the bricks significantly chipped,is pointed out as the place where others have beenfrom time to time stood up in front of a firing squadat too short a range for misses. The Latin-Americanlust for blood has had its manifestations in Panama,and the old prison has doubtless housed its shareof martyrs. But one thinks little of the grimmer history ofthe Chiriqui Prison, looking down upon the brightflower beds, and the gay quadroon girls flirting withsome desperate character who is perhaps in fora too liberal indulgence in rum last pay day. Indeed. THE FLOWERY CHIRIQUI PRISONWhere native women prisoners may flirt without interruption with male malefactors, separated only by a wire fence 248 PANAMA AND THE CANAL
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