Show from the nev new tort yorm throes march 17 I 1 RAILROAD EXCURSION nir nii NES AND INCIDENTS thursday the of february 1855 1835 at mt or boud in I 1 the ile fie we ca camo t me tip lip 10 lo 10 th alantic mail steamship company companas Comp anys Is wharf at t a cita of aspinwall on the island of manzanilla za nilla but lle ile he lie spa spaniard biard does n not 0 t say aspin spin wall laiq s its tys colo coio u debarked De barked w we e m arched marched along the wharf through the cocoanut Coco anut grove at its extremity tre mity cocoanuts cocoa nuts to weing up branches will theirl coronal of shading the fruit on it through this ile lle yan keeva ilage tige chucked suddenly by steam power into thy th midst of a trop ical forest we went want wo for the city Ho II otelis tellis backed by huga hug ge ana I 1 trees and pec carys run runabout abo tit its courts courts the sahit nicholas stands in the shadow of pal pai palms mand and monkeys and green parrots rott rots are arc in iii its porch behind th ehouse stretches the tho marsh with its rank vegetation its superb creeping vines its wild flowers willed am are trees the streets arbone are one vast gathering of or noisy jamaica biggers nig gers mixed nati natives vei vel andr and lotous riotous califor nian samong sain sarn ong whoa whom stands john cinaman Mi CI naman with willi dilapidated pi pl tail laii or stalks the dark handsome cupply from rom madras every Ever house that is not a barroom bar room is a store or shop yams barrist sea shells plantations varnished leather boots oranges rin ning ring tailed monkeys and very pretty patterns adri salt sait cod and pineapples plue pine apples apeles co and ad bats hats to it fit the them m gig pig iron and watermelons water melons ships stores ac invite the passerby to pause and arid I 1 purchase naef native babies ride tide astraddle astr addle addla on the left hip bip of oL parents and guardians natives cook cock in cala bashes in front of their bamboo palm thatched huts next door the tha washed frame provision store stora that came from maine oi or georgia and we go on through all to the neat banana shaded of the railway officers and there col tot teu ten and mr center and mr baldwin and mr keyser heyser w elcome us to the lio iio hospitalities of aspin mess room the atlan alc tic whose waves rush foaming forever over the corol reef that forms the nucleus of the island there the cool bremze breza seldom sleeps but driving rattle rattles the tiie coco cocoanut anut leaves or waves aves the graceful stalny foliage of thia tiie banana W and pia pla plantain du the left are col cot bottens Tot tens quarters and around the neighborhood are the dwellings and mess rooms of gie the men the spacious machines machine shop bop the hospital ac the northern shore of the island is a coral reef washed constantly by breakers and covered regularly by the tide there you find fifty varieties all beautiful of that thai wondrous insect manufacturer fac the shore with the blanched shells of achini or sea eggs queer mack hack and crimson coc cocoles Rles bles little conchs conces and quaintly convolute spiral shells beau beautiful ticul water lilies fringe the beach just out of reach of the tide and odd dods pods and polished seeds and plump little coco cocoanut anut buds lie amid the broken corat coral and countless crabs crawl clattering among all when you have bave crossed the reef inland wards you yon perceive that thie trie island of Alanz manzanilla anlita anilla is composed of alluvial de deposit obit mixed with vegetable decay demy it is 13 low marshy and covered with n of wonderful luxuriance principally the manzanilla Ianza lanza nilla godfather of the island the talfer mangroves man groves cocoa nuts castor oil plant something that looks like tha the wild banana und quantities of flower and fruit baing bearing creepers creede ra but the oddest fellow is tile the shore ore who and does lyn lin business siness oil on tile the coral corral reef T he M makes mikes his first appearance coming out of a litle title hole in the rock once probably the abode of a meditative crab or a retired cocle and waxes upward about a foot being then an hh ih or so in ili diameter lie then goes on to and a I 1 thickness of four or five inches and in due time is blessed by branches but the tha branch once safely safety through its infancy sots sot soe s its wp d oats in the tha air to oora fora i r 1 a while and then turns ills ins attention to business lie swings down over the tho the coral until lle lie a spies a congeni convenient ent ont hole when he immediately plunges into it strikes out roots for himself and goes into partnership mith with his father catching and arid accumulating oysters 0 limpets limpers and barnacles barnacled barn acles it soon become becomes s a hard matter to the pd pa 1 rrt rat where every trunk is a branch and every ever gialich a trunk with roots and duties of his own no squirrels run up the mangroves man groves bark but oysters do th of the in angrove mangrove boughs are ZITO plit purple backed red clawed clawd crabs it struck 5 your our correspondent aident as comical when ile he fi ferst first st saw a arii crab b cili clit climb ab a tree 1 si cir animal products of tile tiie island are 1 turkey buzzards and pot beil bell belfred lied babies bables I 1 I 1 we wego gat into the carriages of tile lie lle panama rail poll a yell llie the i engineer holled glied us up lip into a gallop gallon and away we WO wennith wen with I 1 a achber achier cheer out of Aspin wag it 8 manz isminy which measures a rale raie inne t dy three quarters of a mile tout sout southward hward land two miles to idill wt ae the ito 6 11 u p the ble lie i ansby silt spit apers on on give five miles further to the banks of the tilo Clia cila ares gres gres grea river averi I 1 the winding of which we follow for some sixteen then eroding it at mag noo real feal feet rea i in length we rattle rattie oh oil hven milts mitts rl further until we pause at ui batach h ilee we found a bean hill verdure er ald aid its byse bye touching the tho track A vailey talley moist ia sprit s i u arau r A its fogt foat its tides bra era girded ay mastic martic oge oft nut tut palms palmos its grass I 1 is thickly ir graden blossoms i und and delicate soli foliage a 0 of f plant A all ail round A are other othy othu lii ili inc j with stretches p tropical tropical thick forest visita I 1 aten on them ns bill hill we Blene vlene stene dk ou fu eloquent by judge bowl bowlin united stat stal states tes ies minister toN ion a anew evv evy 11 Gr reneda eneda ad tonn tau tan VB we lid iid ild I 1 id upon the very sumit sumi nut rut the cornerstone corner stone of a m chinh ebirt s til record a tribute W t t in me rne nou nory of JO jotia 4 1 ste pheris aw ani and to ta f the enterprise enter prize zeal and of the tha othen oilier 1 two w 0 original road ni 11 spin Apin ARpin walland wailand henry chauncy returned to the cats and we wa spun on seven mites to a arid arld thieu then roared past east tile tiie railroad summit suin guin mit then onward down the slope to the gay pay walls walla and mother of pearl covered spires of I 1 pa I 1 hama biama the beautiful I 1 with all our stoppages cornerstone corner stone laying and orations rora lora lions flower gatherings purchase purchases s of oranges pine apples sugar cane cocoanut coco anut candy etc we of the Ma mauti atlanta uti stood on the afif shores ores of the pacific withie five hours bours from our time of starting ing now the mighty sea lay before us studded a few rew nies ules ont out with lovely islands perico and aleano and add Flamin flamingo gg and fabolia Ta holla bolia and tal tai 0 o nil all ia the paradise of gardens then eastward rolling past the sandwich isles it stretched ten thousand miles away to cinnamon cinnam on scented ma ala labar old oti panama some nine miles down the beach was built in 1514 by vasco nunez de balboa baltic a the gallant galiant spaniard the same who first of white men inen the ibe etee steep sides of cerro gigante and sawn saw both oceans washing lle ile be lie shores A splendid paved road led from the city to the river liver chagres chagares Ch agres f fine ovals walls walis encompassed it the houses honses I 1 quote quota from the lives of the buccaneers Bucca were built of ced cedar arvery very curious and magnificent and richly adorned especially nith with hang hanging ings gand saud paintings thero there were eight convents two stately churches asid arid a hospital the churches and con vents notably adorned with other precious things there were 2000 houss bouss hous bous s 3 of magnificent building and 50 I 1 more the neighboring fields were wera full of fertile plantations and pleasant gardens this when correspondent your saw it ity was gone one glorious tower stood amid wid massive trees stalwart and tail tall overhung by creeping vines the dvm dim dwelling elling place of the bizzard liz zard the centipede and nd he the scorpion the ruins of the cloisters and chapels lay around the cactus grew where the altar used to stand and the delicate tracery of the wiil windows dows is replaced by interlacing branches with green loath esome iguanas up upon them em for or henry morgan the buccaneer sacked and set fire to old panama on the as cf of august 1670 the tile next year the tho survivors built new ral Pal panama iama lama on the point between the bay of that name and the baym baylet callee carlee playa prieta they surrounded it with high powerful walls and adorned it with W ili ill magnificent churches ch n relies and convents at present most of these are in ruins for the people are neither industrious nor piously disposed and for majority of the clergy the less said about them the better for corthern thern them meantime one of the finest ruins known anywhere to your correspond correspondent ett eit is the church and cloisters of sail san francisco the cathedral now amise has a fine front and is not ua stately as a building build 1119 ilig but it is wretched wretchedly lymon mean n and poor within the walls were once mounted with oiin one hundred and eight long thirty twos magnificent spanish guns gu ns most of which were melted up for money at he the t revolution leaving a minority asleep in the sun upon the ramparts the garrison consists of eleven natives aud and a who wear dirty blue coats with di city t red stripes str ipos go barefooted and cant care rare anybody an adv they do not put you in hi mind of I 1 napoleons old guard the population is an am agreeable mixture of spanish amei amen ieans leans cans indians and biggers nig gers the better class lives well arid and sometimes elegantly elega the others live lazily but well in fit their way jerked beef beer and bananas plantains plant ains and oran abundant and excellent caimito a delicious purple fruit nispero a russet better one apple appie which would make a maii man deny his to bo be fed on gu which is as big as a pine apple and end deliciously acid chi charamoy chir amoya which your correspondent could not get hold of the e ciamei apple which is liked by the natives and loathed by your correspondent ates and tamarinds tama rinds and guava and a long bean full of vai val vanilla iila cream and water mellons arid and limes and a lot of jolly thing things be besides gides bides prevent these people from knowing either hunger or thirst yet the water is brought from front the iii lil highlands hilands in four five gallon ke kegs kes 1 s slung stung upon the back of a mule mula or jackass a and n d corked with a bunch of or green leaves then chisht Is made of any of these fruits or of corn and a most delicious drink it is and me may mas y be translated by the word slier siler bei bel or sorbet I 1 a am in told that the best way of preparing rg it is to chew chev the fruit and get nt at the juice ia in that way but if vou you dont like it you take your machete mo chete chop tile the vead offa cocoanut coco anut and t therein filid a i cool de licous pint 0 of fl boratis fluid I 1 NOTE when you goto go to the isthmus if you tire of euen Juen quenching china your thirst by bi fruits stick to inu inh liquors which are excellent and abundant abu dant why should they nature feeds them they have roods roofs to beiter shelter them rhey cook in the streets yd the children ildren cli cil battle battie in ili the gutters ther therbor eor the women wear a very beautiful dress white hite or white and spotted iri tri flounced at v he file bottom with a flounced cape dape alo alio aio at top coite mg lah lih h up on olf the bust ft it is tu tut t ver very y low on the back and the tho fine hue smooth bronze or black shoulders are picturesquely relieved by the snowy drees the tile proper dress of a laborer is 19 a batand hat bat and pair of trousers the habiliment of the children till theace tiie tile age of ten is their skins shins the he pious luxurious a hat bat or a in tile ille you will see a fellow riding with nothing oa on him but a hai hat and abair a pair of enormous epurs some of the women are very handsome nearly all hate beautiful hair and eyes bat but bat ort ori oaths the lath we tre all went oft off to I 1 taboga an island twelve miles from panama just one huge dirden girden g irden of delights watered by pleasant and abundant streams streams which flow oer hocky rocky beds i through tike tha the imperia habla forts forests ts scented by mighty orame groveland grove groves ennd sand and farms of pine rine pineapples apples it forestt its forest the caimito ealim caim iio ilio and and ard mam roam mei mel i and delicious manso manzo oits inq glades cf of tamarind and guya luva and abound tue tug lims ism lim s its fields ot of corn I 1 and sugar can cane and vamos varos and d yucas lind and breadfruits cof coi i rilin tain ains and bananas with bamboo to build your houses and palm paim P alin leaves to thatch that ich it and calabash a ve tre esto es to r sinde ade it an and d grow pots 01 ts and pans pils for tor jo you nitha with vitha a il glorious orious ile lie harbor nv where ere lii ili the falt fall tind and iise lise nse use of the 1 tide is is two and twenty perpendicular feet with shores full of exquisite shells with lots of blackened a ed white teethed native girls in muslin and children gildren in nothing at all if you cant spend a week here hete pleasantly boit ou had better go to newport or saratoga saru Sard toga and see how you on like that behold us next on ort thurida thursday r even evening eveni ug q uplifted over the surf by the natives dumped i into t 0 rowboats and rowed to the fine steamer panama fifty miles down the Pac pacific ifie the famed pearl islands waited for our oming we W had lad brought two iwo divers with us a black one 1 and a yellow one who were to show us how the pearls are caught we slept most comfortably and waked to a delicious breakfast and a view view of our destination that us in numbers and settling upon the fore top mast stay looked down upon us with much serenity at last jast a sailor going out upon the bowsprit captured one and we all gathered round him hirn to admire his big stupidity all the old salts had bad been telling us that if he were het set on deck he would not rise being too to comprehend his si situation so he was set in tile tiie midst of our circle his wings pressed down to his sides and the exhibitors hands removed whereupon he be immediately walked to the side odthe boat and afew away but isla del rey with its native town of san miguel was reached at last and we cast anchor in a few minutes canoes hewn from a single tree trunk trunks camei came out paddled by naked natives and some brought fish and arid others little boxes full of or pearis pearls the tile boats were lowered and we dewent went ashore picking up shells sheils we walked along the shore to san miguel a town of 1300 population its houses 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