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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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e entrapped.The tender fern, theshrinking sensitive plant,the flowering shrub, thebending sapling, thesturdy and towering treeare all tied together bylithe, serpentine, gnarledand unbreakable vineswhich seem to springfrom the ground andhang from the highestbranches as well. Thereare not enough inches ofground to support thevegetation so it growsfrom the trees living liter-ally on the air. Everygreen thing that can beara thorn seems to havespines and prickers to tearthe flesh, and to catch theclothing and hold theprisoner fast. Try it andyou will see why no largemammals roam in thejungle; only the snakesand the lizards creepingdown below the green tangle can attain large sizeand move. And how beautiful it all is! The green alone wouldbe enough, but it is varied by the glowing orangepoll of a lignum vitas tree, the bright scarlet of thehibiscus, the purple of some lordly tree whose namethe botanist will know but not the wayfarer. Coloris in splotches on every side, from the wild flowers
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CHURCH AT CHAGRES Up the steep path in the foreground the buccaneers chargedupon Fort Lorenzo close to the rivers brink to great yellow blossoms onthe tops of trees so tall that they tower over theforests like light-houses visible for miles around.Orchids in more delicate shades, orchids that wouldset Fifth Avenue agog, are here to be had for a few blows of a machete. Itis a riot and a revel ofcolor—as gay as the deco-rations of some ancientarena before the gladia-torial combats began.For life here is a steadybattle too, a struggle be-tween man and the jimgleand woe to the man whoinvades the enemyscountry alone or straysfar from the trail,shadowy and indistinctas that may be. A man ought to beable to live quite a whilelost in the jungle, saida distinguished magazinewriter who was with meon the upper Chagresonce. We had been listen-ing to our guides descrip-tion of the game, andedible fruits in the forest.Live about two daysif he couldnt find thetrail or the rivers bank,was the respo

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