Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . the incalculable boon of being furn-ished, daily, with fresh meats, fruits andvegetables of all descriptions, eggs, cowsmilk and ice, all of which, excepting the lat-ter article, manufactured in Colon, arebrought over to the Isthmus from the bestmarkets of the United States of yet, despite of these immense advan-tages, hitherto unknown in this part of theworld, there are lots who are not satisfied,and kick about prices which, however, whencompared with those charged by the localmerchants for inferior articles of cons
Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal . the incalculable boon of being furn-ished, daily, with fresh meats, fruits andvegetables of all descriptions, eggs, cowsmilk and ice, all of which, excepting the lat-ter article, manufactured in Colon, arebrought over to the Isthmus from the bestmarkets of the United States of yet, despite of these immense advan-tages, hitherto unknown in this part of theworld, there are lots who are not satisfied,and kick about prices which, however, whencompared with those charged by the localmerchants for inferior articles of consump-tion, whose assortment is not, by anymeans, varied, the balance in the scale ofcomparison will, invariably, result in favorof the imported commodities. But then, Isuppose there must be kickers in everysphere and clime, the Isthmus not ex-cluded; for it boasts of many who can wellbe termed Born-kickers—free, easy and ex-temporaneous Kickers, who will kick, eventhough there is nothing absolutely to kickabout, until their last day upon this side NATURE AND LIFE. 61 CULEBRA. Culebra! Who has not heard of Culebra?Since the month of January, 1880, when theFrench began operations, Culebra has beenon the tongues of men, the world over, as athing unachievable—as an engineering im-possibility ! The French, however, who had preparedtheir plans well, and had studied them outcarefully, paid no attention, whatever, tothis expression of opinion, which theyknew, as an absolute fact, had emanatedfrom those who were friends of Nicaragua,and, consequently, sworn and open enemiesof the favored Panama route, but pro-ceeded, at once, with the tremendous task ofdemolishing the Culebra Mountain, in theperformance of which they proved to theworld, at large, the feasibility of theirscheme, and did good work until 1888,when, as many of us have good reasons toremember, operations were, suddenly, sus-pended. Then came an idle lapse of some fifteen 62 PANAMA PICTURES. long years of wear
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