| Show Panama City Has las Much Mach r uch Interest to I li Tourists T Although Pana Iana ua u is one of the themo mo most t to ancient title clUe cities in the lie New Now world it Isto Is to the Unite States Stales that lint It owes much of Its p 11 sent pr-sent sent prestige and the wealth After 1 11 t l e fall tall of the Inca kingdoms and til tl draining of ot theIr great stores of ot g gild d and other wealth the sacking of tl th old ell city by pirates pirat's find and the decline o 0 Spanish sea power Panama went In ln a partial eclipse Panama peril rates Tales ono of the greatest of geographic jokes on those who visit It Fro ii 1 the sea sen wall prom prom- promenade promenade enade one can se fO F s c e the sun rise ma nm majestically from tl tI e c broad blue bosom of the Pacific w ilch to most Amen Ameri Americans cans Is the lie prof r I r place only for n a setting sun And when one sails from city to Colon the thit Atlantic termInal of the c anti nal the direction Is from southeast t northwest Instead ot of from west to c e st us as might reason reason- reasonably reasonably ably ubly be expected Although the present city of ot Pan Pan- Panama Panama ama dates from flom toe Seventeenth Se cen cen- cen- cen century century tur tury It Is considered ed historically t the c new city to dIst j It fr from from m old Panama now In ruins u a few miles to the east Old Panama was entirely destroyed by b th the notorious pirate Benr henry Morgan lorgan Morgan National Geo Geographic Society B Bulletin I Y |
