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Show Baron de Lessep's lecture on his return to Paris was a remarkable one. He used a magic lantern which exhibited views of everything from the coast of Panama to a New York ferry-boat. "Do you dare to hint," he asked, "that the Panama canal route runs through an unhealthy country? Look here!" and he presented to the audience a dark-eyed, laughing beauty - a Panama angel, whom one of the Baron's engineers had married. "Do you think that an unhealthy country can produce such beings as this?" The listeners applauded to the echo. |