. Pacific shores from Panama . rselves the glories of their mightyheights. We landed at Salaverry and were delighted withthe broad strand, worthy of an Ostend or a Brighton,that stretches in a wide curve off toward Trujillo,founded by Pizarro and named by him for his birth-place in Estremadura, whose white domes and towerslay some miles distant like a mirage of the Orientamong palms and verdant valleys. Salaverry itself is a low, one-storied affair whosebroad, straight sandy streets with their woodenhouses are strongly reminiscent of some of ourWestern frontier towns. Yet Spanish civilisation
. Pacific shores from Panama . rselves the glories of their mightyheights. We landed at Salaverry and were delighted withthe broad strand, worthy of an Ostend or a Brighton,that stretches in a wide curve off toward Trujillo,founded by Pizarro and named by him for his birth-place in Estremadura, whose white domes and towerslay some miles distant like a mirage of the Orientamong palms and verdant valleys. Salaverry itself is a low, one-storied affair whosebroad, straight sandy streets with their woodenhouses are strongly reminiscent of some of ourWestern frontier towns. Yet Spanish civilisation hasput a picturesque impress upon it—upon its windowswith their iron rejas; upon its broad verandas barredwith screens and used as outdoor rooms; and uponthe life of its streets, where women in black, half [51] PACIFIC SHORES FROM PANAMA hidden in sombre doorways, call to the aguador as hepeddles his donkey-load of water from door to door,and half-naked street urchins vend chirhnoyas andalligator pears at the A Grated Veranda, Salaverry Upon the beach the fishermen mend their netsnear the cahallitos drying in the sun that stand erectagainst gaily painted fishing-smacks. It was a Sun-day morning, so the strand was dotted with bathers,diving in the surf or chasing each other in wild races [52]
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