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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
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lly im-penetrable by the white man.Through this country Balboa led hisforce on his expedition to the un-known Pacific, and was followed bythe bloodthirsty Pedrarias who bredup in the Indians a hatred of thewhite man that has grown as theages passed. No expedition can enterthis region even today except as anarmed force ready to fight for theright of passage. In 1786 the Span-iards sought to subdue the territory,built forts on both the Atlantic andPacific coasts and established a lineof trading posts connecting them.But the effort failed. The posts wereabandoned. Today the white manwho tries to enter the Darien doesso at the risk of his life. In 1854 ^ navy exploring expeditionof twenty-seven men, under commandof Lieutenant Isaac C. Strain, enteredthe jungle of the Darien at CaledoniaBay, on the Atlantic side, the site ofPattersons ill-fated colony. Theypurposed crossing the Isthmus andmaking a survey for a canal route,as an English adventurer not longbefore had asserted—falsely as it
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Pholo by Underwood & Undcru-ood TRAPPING AN ABORIGINEIn houses and clothing the Darien Indians are decidedly primitive 305 3o6 PANAMA AND THE CANAL

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