. Pacific shores from Panama . ( li-^l ^S^vSy \5?>i^.l^ ^•^^ An Outlying Street, Acajpulco great airy chambers whose windows are barred withsolid rejas strong enough for a prison. At sundown we were towed in the agents boat toour ship, which had meanwhile gone across the bay [277] PACIFIC SHORES FROM PANAMA to coal. The evening was delightful, the air balmyyet refreshing, and the calm bay, landlocked, withbut its single exit to the sea, spread its opalescentwaters to catch the sky reflections—pink, green,lavender, and mauve. The American consul hadcome out with us—a distinguished-look
. Pacific shores from Panama . ( li-^l ^S^vSy \5?>i^.l^ ^•^^ An Outlying Street, Acajpulco great airy chambers whose windows are barred withsolid rejas strong enough for a prison. At sundown we were towed in the agents boat toour ship, which had meanwhile gone across the bay [277] PACIFIC SHORES FROM PANAMA to coal. The evening was delightful, the air balmyyet refreshing, and the calm bay, landlocked, withbut its single exit to the sea, spread its opalescentwaters to catch the sky reflections—pink, green,lavender, and mauve. The American consul hadcome out with us—a distinguished-looking man witha young face and snow-white hair—and he and theagent dined at the captains table, and we all spentthe evening together up under the bridge by thecaptains cabin. The coal-barges lay alongside, and in the fitful lightof electric reflectors we could see the passers, a motleycrew, half naked, grimy, black by nature or by dust,one could not tell which, shovelling the coal likedemons, in the weird night light. Our next Mexican port was Manzanillo, whose
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