Con Speaker Cannon attraverso i tropici : una storia descrittiva di un viaggio nelle Indie Occidentali, Venezuela e Panama: Contenendo le viste del presidente sui nostri possessi coloniali. Dal francese è stato dismaniaciato e arrugginito, e molto di esso, come vedrete alongthe linea della ferrovia, è stato gettato sopra nei fossati per becovered dalla terra, perché quello era il senso più facile disposedof esso. Gli edifici che hanno lasciato che erano riparabili agli Americani hanno dovuto essere restaurati e messi in ordine. Noi dobbiamo arrivare qui gli uomini; ci sono verso l'alto di trenta millesimi. Sono stati trainati e trascinati fr

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With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions . by the French was dis-mantled and rusting, and much of it, as you will see alongthe line of the railroad, was tossed over into the ditches to becovered by earth, because that was the easiest way to disposeof it. The buildings they left that were serviceable to theAmericans had to be restored and put in order. We hadto get the men here; there are upwards of thirty thousandnow. They have been keel-hauled and dragged from all 254 WITH spi:ake:r cannon through th^ tropics. countries. Some of them have given us more trouble thanthey were worth. We had to design, order, have made, andshipped new machinery, new cars, boats, and other equip-ment; great storehouses have had to be constructed, andthen, we have been two thousand miles from, the base ofsupplies. It takes time to reach New York or Chicago orSan Francisco, and for weeks we hear nothing of home.Meanwhile, the work has been going on. Upon the Isthmuswe think we have done well. Assisted by Consul-General Shanklin, I carefully studied. VILI^AGE OF GATUN, PANAMA. the plan of the canal as the train journeyed along fromColon to Panama. We stopped occasionally; at Gatun, forinstance, where the great protecting locks on the Atlanticside are being reared; at Culebra, where the great cut isbeing made, and on the approach to Panama, where thelocks are to protect shipping upon the Pacific side. Iobserved, on the way across, what every schoolboy shouldknow—that we were following a southeasterly course fromColon to Panama, an odd condition due to the strange con-figuration of the neck of land now uniting the two Americas COLON AND PANAMA. 255 and which we are soon to sever. Instead of running fromeast to west, Colon being almost northwest of Panama, thecanal, beginning at Colon, will run in a southeasterly coursefrom the Caribbean Sea, on the Atlant

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