. Panama pictures : nature and life in the land of the great canal. d noticed all along the line of therailroad, and which, summed up to a grandtotal, amounted, so to speak, to a veritableresurrection of things, long dead, from thegraveyard of 1888, Avhen the French retired,to the living present period of 1906! The rejuvenation which the various sta-tions had undergone since the advent of theAmericans, was patent everywhere—inshort, the transformation was simply won-derful; for it seemed scarcely credible thatso much good work could have been accom-plished in such a comparatively short space .
. Panama pictures : nature and life in the land of the great canal. d noticed all along the line of therailroad, and which, summed up to a grandtotal, amounted, so to speak, to a veritableresurrection of things, long dead, from thegraveyard of 1888, Avhen the French retired,to the living present period of 1906! The rejuvenation which the various sta-tions had undergone since the advent of theAmericans, was patent everywhere—inshort, the transformation was simply won-derful; for it seemed scarcely credible thatso much good work could have been accom-plished in such a comparatively short space .of time, in a tropical country, too, wherethings, as a rule, enjoy the unenviable repu-tation abroad of moving slowly on, and—manana-like to a close. But, forgetting our critics for the time,and remembering this, only: The Truthdoes not hurt—it thrills, let me, for thebenefit of those who are real lovers of theTruth, and who are friends of Panama, pro-ceed with this truthful sketch of the Isth-mus, and of the railroad ride I had across ita few mornings
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