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Camina Reale, or Royal Road, near Porto Bello, Panama

Identifier: panamacanalinpic01abbo (find matches)
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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ssed, thenclosing in be-hind cut off all retreat to Panama—when ho! for the fat pannierscrammed with gold and precious stones! The plan was simplicity itself and was defeatedby an equally simple mischance. The drinks of theIsthmus which, as we have seen, the Spaniardscommended mightily when they drank, were treach-erous in their workings upon the human mind—aquality which has not passed away with the bucca-neers and cimmaroons, but still persists. One ofDrakes jolly cutthroats, being over fortified withnative rum for his nocturnal vigil, heard the tinkleof mtde bells and rose to his feet. The leading muleteer turned his animal and fled, crying to thesaints to protect him from the sheeted specter inthe path. The captain in charge of the caravan wasdubious about ghosts, but, there being a number ofmules loaded with grain at hand, concluded to sendthem on to see if there were anything about theghosts which a proper prayer to the saint of theday would exorcise. So the Englishmen again
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CAMINA EEALE, OR ROYAL ROAD NEAR PORTO BELLO heard the tinkling mule bells, waited this time inlow breathing silence to let the rich prize pass,then with shouts of triumph dashed from the jimgle,cut down or shot the luckless muleteers, and swarmedabout the caravan eager to cut the bags and get atthe booty—and were rewarded with sundry bushelsof grain intended to feed the crowds at Nombrede Dios. The disaster was irreparable. The true treasuretrain at the first uproar had fled back to the wallsof Panama. Nothing was left to Drakeand hismen but to plod back empty handed to Cruces, 70 PANAMA AND THE CANAL

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