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Empty, too, were the long stables where the horses and mules had used to be kept for conveying the royal plate from ocean to ocean. Two or three poor beasts lay in their stalls slaughtered as unfit for service; the rest, no doubt, were carrying Morgan's loot on the road to Chagres.
But with all our fears we got through the night safely, and in the morning found our boatmen who had hidden away. We waited not for breakfast, but sailed away as soon as we could, and reached Chagres, near the mouth of the river, before night. The river banks here are not more than three feet high, and farther back the land fell off again into a wet swamp of timber and dense vegetable growth.
But it was not long before more ships were put on, and the service improved and prospered. By September, 1849, the Chagres company had their first completed ship in commission. This was the Ohio, 2432 tons, built in New York. Soon afterwards the Illinois was added. At about the same time the Pacific company had added two more to their fleet the Columbia and the Tennessee.
In the year 1551 Lopez de Gomara, the author of a "History of Indies," a work written with care and displaying considerable erudition, proposed to unite the two oceans by means of canals at three different points, Chagres, Nicaragua and Tehuantepec. Gomara's proposals were not acted upon, and the honour of carrying out the project was reserved for France.
There they found the boys, waiting for them, eager for the story of the explosion, and wondering at their long delay. Between Tabernilla and Gamboa, a distance of about fifteen miles, the restless Chagres river, in its old days of freedom, crossed the canal line no less than fifteen times.
"Don't think so. That's Limon Bay, isn't it? Where is Colon?" "Colon is where the railroad's going to begin. We land at Chagres." "Where is Chagres?" "How far across to the Pacific at Panama?" "About four days. Three by boat and one by mule, they say." "Anything to eat at Chagres? Any sleeping place?" "Don't know." "Oh, Tom! How'll we engage a canoe?
As we walked on my companion gave out and could carry his bundle no longer, so I took it, along with my own, and we got on as fast as we could, but darkness came on us before we reached the Chagres River and we had to stay all night at a native hut.
I'll be around again about sundown to see if you're alive. "Old Doc's powders knocked the chagres. I stayed in San Juan, and got to knowing him better. He was from Mississippi, and the red-hottest Southerner that ever smelled mint. He made Stonewall Jackson and R. E. Lee look like Abolitionists.
The San Pedro from Chagres, and Marianita from Santa Martha, although rich, have both got convoy. Ah, too strong for your friends, Obed I see, I see.
I dosed him most copiously with salt water, a very cooling medicine, and no lack of it at hand. We weighed at grey dawn, on the morning of the 15th, and at 11 o'clock, AM arrived at Chagres, a more miserable place, were that credible, even than Porto Bello.
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