Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . rallel to the shore and perhaps amile out, forming the barrier for the harbor which isindeed a noble bay well fit to shelter navies. Butthe barrier, though but a few feet above high waternow, is sinking gradually, and the future of King-stons harbor is somewhat distressing. Once thislow sandbar bore the most riotous and wicked town H PANAMA AND THE CANAL of history, for here stood Port Royal to whichflocked the pirates and buccaneers of the SpanishMain, with their booty—doubloons, pieces of eight,beauteous Spanish senoritas and all the other at-tr
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . rallel to the shore and perhaps amile out, forming the barrier for the harbor which isindeed a noble bay well fit to shelter navies. Butthe barrier, though but a few feet above high waternow, is sinking gradually, and the future of King-stons harbor is somewhat distressing. Once thislow sandbar bore the most riotous and wicked town H PANAMA AND THE CANAL of history, for here stood Port Royal to whichflocked the pirates and buccaneers of the SpanishMain, with their booty—doubloons, pieces of eight,beauteous Spanish senoritas and all the other at-tractive plunder with which the dime novels of ouryouth made us familiar. A right merry spot wasPort Royal in those days and a pistol bullet or a wildest of the reckless lot, a baronet, and appointedhim governor of Jamaica. Now Port Royal hasshrunken to a ashing village, bordering upon theabandoned British naval station at the very har-bors mouth. One sees there the emplacements for guns, but noguns; the barracks for marines, but no men. Even. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, KINGSTuNThe special type of reenforced concrete buildings with hroad arcades is well adapted to the tropics swift stab in the back, though common enough,only halted the merriment for one man at a fire purged Port Royal, and the pleasant pursuitof piracy began to fall into disrepute. Instead oftreating the gallants who sailed under the JollyRoger as gentlemen adventurers, civilized govern-ments began to hang them—England being the lastto countenance them in making Henry Morgan, the flagstaff rises dismally destitute of bunting. Nosign of military or naval life appears about theharbor. The flrst time I visited it a small Britishgunboat about the size of our Dolphin droppedanchor and sent four boatloads of jackies ashorefor a frolic, but on my second visit the new Gover-nor of the colony arrived on a Royal Mail ship,unescorted by any armed vessel, and v/as received KINGSTON, THE COLONIAL CAPITAL 15 without .m
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