Panama and the canal . Tiads of cockroaches,which rendered life a burden. Sickness was seldomabsent from the camp, while death was a too frequentvisitor. No one escaped the calentura, as the jungle feveris called. In a little time the white meml)crs of theparty were the pale hue of ghosts; and even the dusky I02 BATTLE WITH THE JUNGLE natives grew many shades lighter than their naturalbronze. Under these untoward circumstances, at the beginningof the long rainy season, of which no one of the company,except the natives, had any practical knowledge, was. Scene on Panama Railroad.—Bolivar Street,
Panama and the canal . Tiads of cockroaches,which rendered life a burden. Sickness was seldomabsent from the camp, while death was a too frequentvisitor. No one escaped the calentura, as the jungle feveris called. In a little time the white meml)crs of theparty were the pale hue of ghosts; and even the dusky I02 BATTLE WITH THE JUNGLE natives grew many shades lighter than their naturalbronze. Under these untoward circumstances, at the beginningof the long rainy season, of which no one of the company,except the natives, had any practical knowledge, was. Scene on Panama Railroad.—Bolivar Street, Colon. commenced the battle with tropical nature that was to endin triumph five weary years later. James Baldwin was selected to survey the line of theroad. He organized a small party, and made the boldplunge. For a long distance they were obliged to wade inwater waist deep, and to hew their way through the dense A DARING ENGINEER 103 jungle. It is saitl that Daklwin carried liis noonday lunclicon in his hat, during the progress of that part of the sunxy, and ate it standinLr amid enidous ahiyattirs and water snalvcs. Be that as it may, it is Baldwin doubtful if a more daring feat of engineering has been performed. Think of it! day after scorching clay, sliut in 1j}- impenetrable growth of jungle, each weary foot of which must be cut down before any adyance could be made, ijreathing air laden witli poison, and tormented by millions of insects! The wonder is that any man could hiwc had such courage and endurance. X(.)t far from Colon was the
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