. Panama : a personal record of forty-six years, 1861-1907 . on, and especially to Mr. JamesL. Baldwin, for the unfailing courage dis-played. To quote from a writer of the period—at a crisis near the end of the year 1850— the bravest might well have faltered, and eventurned back from so dark a prospect as pre-sented itself to the leaders of this forlorn hope;but they were men whom personal perils andprivations could not daunt, whose energy anddetermination, toil and suffering could not van- 19 [Panama quish. They saw with prophetic vision, eventhrough the dehrium of fever, and the cloudsof dou
. Panama : a personal record of forty-six years, 1861-1907 . on, and especially to Mr. JamesL. Baldwin, for the unfailing courage dis-played. To quote from a writer of the period—at a crisis near the end of the year 1850— the bravest might well have faltered, and eventurned back from so dark a prospect as pre-sented itself to the leaders of this forlorn hope;but they were men whom personal perils andprivations could not daunt, whose energy anddetermination, toil and suffering could not van- 19 [Panama quish. They saw with prophetic vision, eventhrough the dehrium of fever, and the cloudsof doubt and darkness by which they were en-veloped, that they were engaged in an under-taking of great importance to the commerce ofthe world, and that upon their devotion its earlycompletion depended. All honor should there-fore be paid to the memory of these heroic have now joined the majority, everyone, — All, all are gone, the old familiar faces,— but their names should be remembered withthose who have conferred benefits on our race. 20 ^-^.
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