. Souvenir: trip of congressional party to Panama, March 12-18, nineteen hundred and seven; . orns all the money of the Republicand also ornaments its postagestamps. The story of his adventurouslife, read when a boy, comes back to me amid the scenes of his greatachievements. He escaped from hiscreditors in Spain, by being shippedto the West Indies in a cask. Hewas the best of the Spanish adven-turers who came to this country atthe close of the fifteenth century. Itwas his lot to be beheaded at the be-hest of the worst of the many infam-ous Spanish governors who exploitedthis region. In one par
. Souvenir: trip of congressional party to Panama, March 12-18, nineteen hundred and seven; . orns all the money of the Republicand also ornaments its postagestamps. The story of his adventurouslife, read when a boy, comes back to me amid the scenes of his greatachievements. He escaped from hiscreditors in Spain, by being shippedto the West Indies in a cask. Hewas the best of the Spanish adven-turers who came to this country atthe close of the fifteenth century. Itwas his lot to be beheaded at the be-hest of the worst of the many infam-ous Spanish governors who exploitedthis region. In one part of the old cemetery canbe seen a pile of human skulls andbones where the bodies have beenburned. The old Spanish custom isto rent a grave for eighteen months,and after that, unless considerable ad-ditional rent is paid, the bodies aredisinterred and burned. I rememberseeing a large pit in a corner of thebeautiful graveyard in Havana, wherehundreds of exhumed human bodieshad been thrown. But since the Amer-icans came here this revolting man-ner of disposing of the dead has —9— Random Notes on Panama Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama, March14.—A few random notes on Panama,its people and what can be seen andheard here, may perhaps prove inter-esting to some of the readers of theObserver. Many inquiries have been madeabout positions under the IsthmianCanal Commission and the prospect ofgetting work here, by residents ofWestern Pennsylvania. After diligentinquiry one concludes that Panama isone of the best places to work in theworld. No other location is morehealthy and no place could be foundin the tropics which is cooler thanthis. Certainly it would be difficultto discover another spot where sani-tary regulations are so strictly en-forced. The wages here are of the employes save money,perhaps because there is no way towaste It. Competent men can get po-sitions at from $ to $ permonth. This includes those who arefitted to serve as sanitary insp
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