Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . STREET IN DAVID THE CACAO TREE through the lake whichwould be fairly alivewith birds and otheranimal life. The Bayano Riverregion beside being thecenter of such lumber-ing activities as theZone knows at presentis the section in whichare found the curiousvegetable ivory nutswhich, though growingwild, have become oneof the principal productsof Panama. Only afew years ago they werelooked upon merely ascuriosities but are nowa useful new are gathered bythe natives and soldto dealers in Panama. IN THE BANANA COUNTRY289 290 PANAMA AND THE
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . STREET IN DAVID THE CACAO TREE through the lake whichwould be fairly alivewith birds and otheranimal life. The Bayano Riverregion beside being thecenter of such lumber-ing activities as theZone knows at presentis the section in whichare found the curiousvegetable ivory nutswhich, though growingwild, have become oneof the principal productsof Panama. Only afew years ago they werelooked upon merely ascuriosities but are nowa useful new are gathered bythe natives and soldto dealers in Panama. IN THE BANANA COUNTRY289 290 PANAMA AND THE CANAL who ship them north to be made into buttons andother articles of general use. Nobody has yetexperimented with the cultivation of the tree, andthere is reason to believe that with cultivation largernuts could be
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