Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . ch chief engineerhad his own survey made,and most of the division engineers prudently resurveyed the lines of theirchiefs. With the coming of the French, flush times beganagain on the Isthmus and the golden flood pouredmost into Colon, as the Canal diggers made theirmain base of operations there, unlilve the Americanswho struck at natures fortifications all along the line,making their headquarters at Culebra about thecenter of the though the Frenchfailed to dig the Canalthey did win popiilarityon the Isthmus, andthere are regretful and
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . ch chief engineerhad his own survey made,and most of the division engineers prudently resurveyed the lines of theirchiefs. With the coming of the French, flush times beganagain on the Isthmus and the golden flood pouredmost into Colon, as the Canal diggers made theirmain base of operations there, unlilve the Americanswho struck at natures fortifications all along the line,making their headquarters at Culebra about thecenter of the though the Frenchfailed to dig the Canalthey did win popiilarityon the Isthmus, andthere are regretful anduncomplimentary com-parisons drawn in thecafes and other meet-ing-places between thethrift and calculationof the Americans, andthe lavish prodigalityof the French. Every-thing they bought wasat mining-camp pricesand they adopted nosuch plan as the com-missary system now in vogue to save their workers from the rapacity ofnative shopkeepers of all sorts. At Cristobal you are gravely taken to see theDe Lesseps Palace, a huge frame house with two. SAN BLAS INDIAN BOYS
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