Identifier: panamapersonalre00robi_0 ( find matches)
Title: Panama; a personal record of forty-six years, 1861-1907
Year: 1907 ( 1900s)
Authors: Robinson, Tracy, 1833-1915
Subjects: Panama railroad. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York and Panama, The Star and herald company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Ancon Hill in the Rear . 13 4. Native Dwelling, Canal Zone, Panama . .20 5. Mother and Daughters in Native Dress . . 28 6. Entrance to Ancon Hospital, Canal Zone . . 40 7. Black Boys Climbing Cocoanut Tree . . 46 8. On the French Canal near Colon . . . 63 / 9. Slaven Dredges at Anchor 75 10. View on the Chagres River 86 11. Harbor View, Colon, In French Canal Times . 94 12. Banana Day 106 13. Street Scene, Colon 116 14. Ninth Street, Colon, in 1906 ..... 131/ 15. De Lesseps and Family . . • . . . . 139 - 16. Slaven Dredge at Work 151 / 17. Tenth Street, Colon, 1806 . . . . .158, 18. Panama Houris . 170/ 19. Tower of San Jerome, Old Panama . . . 184 / 20. Ruins of Santo Domingo Church, Panama . . 203 / 21. Culebra Cut as the French Left It 210 22. Going to School, Colon, 1906 .... 229 - 23. Front Street, Colon, Before 1885 . . . . 243 24. Sea-Beach, Cristobal, Canal Zone .... 252 25. Inauguration of President Amador . . . 269 26. Lesseps Villa, Cristobal, Canal Zone . . . 273 - xiii
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BRONZE OF COLUMBUS AND INDIAN GIRL AT ATLANTIC ENTRANCE TO THE PANAMA CANAL PRESENTED BY EMPRESS EUGENIE TO COLOMBIA AND TRANSFERRED TOM. DE LESSEPS PANAMA CHAPTER I OIXTY years ago the city of Panama was^ more difficult to reach than Tibet is to-day. The only means of communication, afterthe rule of Spain had ended, and the paved roadacross the Isthmus, from Porto Bello on theAtlantic, had become a ruin, was either by seaor, as far as boats could go, by the Rio Chagres,and thence on muleback. The once proud city had fallen into a stateof apathy. It had no foreign commerce, andvery little domestic trade. A few members ofsome of the leading families of Spanish ancestrywere sent abroad to be educated; but for themost part, poverty or indifference or both keptthe inhabitants captive within their picturesqueold walls. Dullness held them in a summersnare of contented ignorance. Men were sentup the crumbling towers of the old churches,with stones in their hands, to pound religiouslyupon the

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