Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . lun-dered and the fort blown up. The spluttering warbetween England and Spain in which these actionsoccurred became known as the war of Jenkinsear. A too zealous guarda costa lopped off theear of a certain Captain Jenkins who, though un-known to fame prior to that outrage, so made thewelkin ring in England, even exhibiting themummified member from which he had been thusrudely divorced, that Parliament was forced todeclare a war in retaliation for his ear or have itsown talked off. The buccaneers and pirates really caused thefinal abandonment of Po
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . lun-dered and the fort blown up. The spluttering warbetween England and Spain in which these actionsoccurred became known as the war of Jenkinsear. A too zealous guarda costa lopped off theear of a certain Captain Jenkins who, though un-known to fame prior to that outrage, so made thewelkin ring in England, even exhibiting themummified member from which he had been thusrudely divorced, that Parliament was forced todeclare a war in retaliation for his ear or have itsown talked off. The buccaneers and pirates really caused thefinal abandonment of Porto Bello and San Lorenzo,though not by direct attack. They made trade bythe Caribbean and along the Spanish Main soperilous that the people of the Pacific coast foundit more profitable in the long run to make the voyagearound the Horn or through the Straits of economics of trade are unvarying. It seeksthe cheapest before the shortest routes, and oneof the studies of ourcanal authorities willbe to so fix theirtolls that they will. WOMAN OF THE CHAGRES REGION 86 PANAMA AND THE CANAL not, like Morgan, LOlonais and others, frightentrade away from the Isthmus. Though the forts were rebuilt to their originalstrength in 1751, they never regained Bello disappeared when the Royal Road toPanama lost its traffic, and the Chagres onlyresumed a brief importance in 1844 when the RoyalMail Steampacket Co. made San Lorenzo a portof call. When Colon, however, appeared as a port and the terminus of the Panama railroad, thefate of all other ports on the Atlantic side of theIsthmus was sealed. Left to brood over the daysof their greatness—though indeed they never re-pelled any serious attack—the Iron Fort and SanLorenzo were abandoned by their Colombian gar-risons and given over to the insidious and irresistibleconquest of the jungle. Picturesque and dignified,they well repay the visit of the tourist. Still standeth San Lorenzo there, Aye, faithful at his
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