Panama and the canal . .^% Digitized by the Internet Archivein 2010 with funding fromThe Library of Congress Santa Maria.—One of the Ships of Columbus. PANAMA AND THE CANAL By Alfred B. Hall Instructor in History in The Hotchliiss School. Lakeville, Conn, and Clarence L. Chester Traveler and Explorer NEW YORK NEWSON & COMPANY Copyright, 1910, byNEWSON & COMPANY (1149) INTRODUCTION Castilla del Oro —Golden Castile—was the namegiven by Columbus to the Isthmus of Panama, in honorof Isabella, good queen of the old Spanish kingdom ofCastile. Gol
Panama and the canal . .^% Digitized by the Internet Archivein 2010 with funding fromThe Library of Congress Santa Maria.—One of the Ships of Columbus. PANAMA AND THE CANAL By Alfred B. Hall Instructor in History in The Hotchliiss School. Lakeville, Conn, and Clarence L. Chester Traveler and Explorer NEW YORK NEWSON & COMPANY Copyright, 1910, byNEWSON & COMPANY (1149) INTRODUCTION Castilla del Oro —Golden Castile—was the namegiven by Columbus to the Isthmus of Panama, in honorof Isabella, good queen of the old Spanish kingdom ofCastile. Golden, indeed, it was to be, a land of treasurefar beyond the dreams of the Great Discoverer. Graveof the Spaniards—the pioneers called it, who fought towin the treasure from savage Indians, cruel pirates, anda deadly climate. Key to the Pacific—some, too, havenamed it. As if, when Nature raised the broad continentsof North and South America between the Atlantic and thePacific, she originally planned a waterway at this con-venient spot to connect the two oceans. And then, as anafter-thought, threw in this bit of land, at its narrpanamacanal01hall
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