Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . e, pigs and poultry swept ; IP THE RAPIDS away on the rushing tide. There was a fairchance that the tree would follow. On our way upthe river to visitsome of the flu-viographs welanded at Cruces,went a brief spaceinto the jungleand cleared awaywith machetes thetangled vegeta-tion until the oldtrail, or RoyalRoad to Panama,was laid to four feetwide or there-abouts it was, andat points rudely paved with cobble stones. The na-ture and dimensions of the trail show that it was notintended for wheeled carriages, and indeed a nativevehic
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . e, pigs and poultry swept ; IP THE RAPIDS away on the rushing tide. There was a fairchance that the tree would follow. On our way upthe river to visitsome of the flu-viographs welanded at Cruces,went a brief spaceinto the jungleand cleared awaywith machetes thetangled vegeta-tion until the oldtrail, or RoyalRoad to Panama,was laid to four feetwide or there-abouts it was, andat points rudely paved with cobble stones. The na-ture and dimensions of the trail show that it was notintended for wheeled carriages, and indeed a nativevehicle is a rarity on the Isthmus today, except in thetowns. Time came when with the growing power andcruelty of the Spaniards this Camina Reale, or KingsHighway, was watered with the blood of Indianslaves, bearing often their own possessions stolenfrom them by the Spaniard who plied on their bentbacks his bloody lash. It may have been over thistrail that Balboa carried, with incredible labor, theframes of three ships or caravels, which he after-. Plwlo by a. H. ElUuU CONSTRUCTION WORK ON THE SPILLWAY 194 PANAMA AND THE CANAL
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