Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . NATURE AND LIFE. 37 period! ximong the prisoners witliin thewalls of this sacred building at the time,was an old Englishman, who had been abanker for years in Colon, and with whom, the poorer classes of the town were accus-tomed to lodge their hard-earned wages;weekly, and which, on March 30tli, 1885,when Colon was almost totally destroyed byfire, assumed the vast proportion of some-thing in the neighborhood of fifty thousanddollars, which the wily Englishman placedin an open boat, ready to abscond with itin a schooner that wait
Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . NATURE AND LIFE. 37 period! ximong the prisoners witliin thewalls of this sacred building at the time,was an old Englishman, who had been abanker for years in Colon, and with whom, the poorer classes of the town were accus-tomed to lodge their hard-earned wages;weekly, and which, on March 30tli, 1885,when Colon was almost totally destroyed byfire, assumed the vast proportion of some-thing in the neighborhood of fifty thousanddollars, which the wily Englishman placedin an open boat, ready to abscond with itin a schooner that waited for him a littledistance out in the Bay. But the fellow wasfoiled in the act that would have impover-ished so many; for he was made to disgorgethe contents of his treasure-laden Cayuco,upon the threat of marching him to the gal-lows to be hung forthwith. The present status of Bohio, as a RailEoad Station, must be measured by the ex-tent of its importance as a Commercial cen-tre, which I know, from experience, to beequal to that of any of the larger Stationsa
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