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Title: Panama pictures; nature and life in the land of the great canal
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Delevante, Michael. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Alden brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ed to hide themselves behindlarge bales of cotton that were piled up in 56 PANAMA PICTURES. the Freight house of the Panama Rail RoadCompany, and which served as a barricadeagainst a possible attack from the enemyoutside. But, despite of all these necessaryprecautions, not a single shot was fired;for eight thousand dollars American gold,and enough champagne to drown the feel-ings of an inglorious defeat, had done thedeed, and carried away the laurels of thatanxious day, on the night of which, syn-chronously with the arrival of the Dixie,theTRoyal Mail steamer Orinoco, boundfor Cartagena with the Army oil board thathad menaced Colon, moved out of her pier,the while ten thousand sighs of relief wentup from the hearts of those who had begunto return to their respective homes, afterthree days and nights of discomfort andanxiety; deprivations and sickness; then—Presto I—The Republic of Panama. Empire. If there is any Station along the line ofthe Zone, that has caught the full spirit of
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