Identifier: panamapicturesn00dele (find matches)
Title: Panama pictures : nature and life in the land of the great canal
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Delevante, Michael
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Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Alden Brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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S NATURE AND LIFE. 55 November the 5th, 1903, against a handfulof men from the United States Gun Boat^Nashville/ whose number was afterwardsaugmented by some forty raw recruits, col-lected here and there in a hurry—men whohad never held a gun in their lives before—men whose maiden-hands trembled ner-vously as they shouldered their first rifle! Happily, however, the necessity to openup hostilities never arose that day, whichhad been to each and all of us one of thetype of a veritable Waterloo; excepting, ofcourse, The voluptuous swell of music;The dance and the joy unconflned; butnot the Hurrying to and fro; nor theMounting in hot haste of the people intocoaches; for everywhere you turned, therewere men, women, and affrighted children—the women half dressed, and their hair di-sheveled—dashing madly, down the streetsin search of places of refuge, which somefound on board the steamers in the harborat the time, while others, less fortunate,were compelled to hide themselves behindl

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