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Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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topped in theirpassage down the river, for in some places we found the watervery low, so that the boats ran upon the gravel;from whence with poles and the strength of theblackmores they were to be lifted off again. After the lapse of almost four centuries we foundthe shallows still there and the blackmores—or theirdescendants—ready to carry our boat past theirfall. But the people who paid the early travelertwenty crowns for a sermon had vanished as irre-vocably as the citys public edifices, and no descend- ants of like piety remain. Morgans fierce raidersswept through the village in 1670, and its downfallmay have begun then, for the stout Protestantismof the buccaneers manifested itself in burningCatholic churches and monasteries in intervals of theless pious, but more pleasing, occupation of robbingthe Spaniards or torturing them to extort confes-sions of the hiding places of their wealth. Sir Henry Morgan, however, was not the onlyfamous man of battles to pass through Cruces. In
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HOW THEY GATHER AT THE RIVER 1852 a very quiet young captain in the army of theUnited States, one Ulysses S. Grant, was there incommand of a company of the Fourth Regiment ofInfantry, U. S. A., proceeding from New York toSan Francisco. Cholera broke out among the menand the loss while on the Isthmus was heavy. AtCruces the men were detained for days, the rosterof the sick growing daily, while rascally contractorswho had agreed to furnish mules to the army soldthem at higher prices to private parties eager to 196 PANAMA AND THE CANAL

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