Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . reflected the fleecy clouds in the bluesky, and no drop trickled through the joints of thehonest and ancient masonry. Back and forththrough narrow gates, in and out of vaultedchambers, down dark passages behind twenty-footwalls you wander, with but little idea of the topog-raphy of the place until you come to a little watchtower jutting out at one corner of the wall. Herethe land falls away sharply a hundred feet or moreto the sea and you understand why the buccaneers they found the garrison reenforced until it nearlyequaled the English. So slight
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . reflected the fleecy clouds in the bluesky, and no drop trickled through the joints of thehonest and ancient masonry. Back and forththrough narrow gates, in and out of vaultedchambers, down dark passages behind twenty-footwalls you wander, with but little idea of the topog-raphy of the place until you come to a little watchtower jutting out at one corner of the wall. Herethe land falls away sharply a hundred feet or moreto the sea and you understand why the buccaneers they found the garrison reenforced until it nearlyequaled the English. So slight was the disparityin numbers that it seems amazing that the Englishcould have sustained the rigors of the assault. Itwas, of course, impossible to attack the castle onits sea front, and the invaders accordingly left theirboats about a league from the castle, making theirway painfully through the jungle toward the placeof action. Esquemeling describes the fortificationwhich they were tooverthrow thus: /-,,, -? This castle isbuilt upon a high. THE TRUE NATIVE SOCIAL CENTER were forced to attack from the landward side, thoughas you were scaling that toilsome slope you wonderedthat any race of humans ever dared attack itat all. In their story of the assault on Fort Lorenzo, asindeed in the narrative of all the doings of thebuccaneers, the historians have followed the narra-tive of Esquemeling, a young Dutch apothecarywho joined the sea rovers as a sort of assistant sur-geon, and wrote a book which has kept his memoryalive, whatever may have been the effect of hissurgery on his patients. News of the advance ofthe English had reached the Governor of Panamaso that when the assailants reached the battlefield mountain, at the entry of the river, and surroundedon all sides with strong palisades, or wooden walls;being very well terrepleined, and filled with earth;which renders them as secure as the best walls madeof stone or brick. The top of this mountain is in amanner divided into two p
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