. Panama : a personal record of forty-six years, 1861-1907 . ama Cathedral, Ancon Hill in the Rear . 13 4. Native Dwelling, Canal Zone, Panama . 20 5. Mother and Daughters in Native Dress . 28 6. Entrance to Ancon Hospital, Canal Zone . 40 7. Black Boys Climbing Cocoanut Tree ... 46 8. On the French Canal near Colon .... 63 9. Slaven Dredges at Anchor . . .75 10. View on the Chagres River 86 11. Harbor View, Colon, In French Canal Times . 94 12. Banana Day 106 13. Street Scene, Colon ....... 116 14. Ninth Street, Colon, in 1906 ..... 131 15. De Lesseps and Family ...... 139 16. Slaven Dredge a
. Panama : a personal record of forty-six years, 1861-1907 . ama Cathedral, Ancon Hill in the Rear . 13 4. Native Dwelling, Canal Zone, Panama . 20 5. Mother and Daughters in Native Dress . 28 6. Entrance to Ancon Hospital, Canal Zone . 40 7. Black Boys Climbing Cocoanut Tree ... 46 8. On the French Canal near Colon .... 63 9. Slaven Dredges at Anchor . . .75 10. View on the Chagres River 86 11. Harbor View, Colon, In French Canal Times . 94 12. Banana Day 106 13. Street Scene, Colon ....... 116 14. Ninth Street, Colon, in 1906 ..... 131 15. De Lesseps and Family ...... 139 16. Slaven Dredge at Work 151 17. Tenth Street, Colon, 1806 158 18. Panama Houris 170 19. Tower of San Jerome, Old Panama , . .184 20. Ruins of Santo Domingo Church, Panama . 203 21. Culebra Cut as the French Left It . . 210 22. Going to School, Colon, 1906 . . .229 23. Front Street, Colon, Before 1885 . . .243 24. Sea-Beach, Cristobal, Canal Zone .... 252 25. Inauguration of President Amador . . 269 26. Lesseps Villa, Cristobal, Canal Zone . . 273 xiii. BRONZE OF COLUMBUS AND INDIAN GIRL AT ATLANTIC ENTRANCE TO THE PANAMA CANAL PRESENTED BY EMPRESS EUGENIE TO COLOMBIA AND TRANSFERRED TOM. DE LESSEPS PANAMA CHAPTER I OIXTY years ago the city of Panama was^ more difficult to reach than Tibet is to-day. The only means of communication, afterthe rule of Spain had ended, and the paved roadacross the Isthmus, from Porto Bello on theAtlantic, had become a ruin, was either by seaor, as far as boats could go, by the Rio Chagres,and thence on muleback. The once proud city had fallen into a stateof apathy. It had no foreign commerce, andvery little domestic trade. A few members ofsome of the leading families of Spanish ancestrywere sent abroad to be educated; but for themost part, poverty or indifference or both keptthe inhabitants captive within their picturesqueold walls. Dullness held them in a summersnare of contented ignorance. Men were sentup the crumbling towers of the old churches,with stones in th
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