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"Well," exclaimed the general, taking off his Panama hat and mopping his perspiring head and face with a huge red-silk handkerchief, "that is a good job well done, and without the loss of a man, too except, of course, the unfortunate four that we were too late to save. You have managed the affair exceedingly well, young sir, as I shall be happy to bear witness at another time and place.
They had been met by a pirate raid. Good! Young Francis Drake eagerly took up Spain's challenge; he would meet the raid with counter-raid. Three years later he was cruising the Spanish Main, capturing and plundering ships and forts and towns. In 1572 he led his men across the Isthmus of Panama, and intercepted and captured a Spanish convoy of treasure coming overland.
Without such a provision our citizens will be constantly exposed to interruption in their progress and to lawless violence. A similar necessity exists for the passage of such an act for the protection of the Panama and Tehuantepec routes.
That was the first we had known of Tufik's sister, back in Beirut, wearing a veil over her face and making lace for the bazaars. We were to know more. Well, between getting ready to go to Panama and trying to find something Tufik could do, we were very busy for the next month.
"It's only my Mexican hat," she answered, touching the big sombrero, woven from the finest Panama grass, which she was wearing, "and the necklace is made of little gold Aztec idols that were found in a grave. They are very rare; a gentleman gave them to me, and afterwards I was horrified to find that he had paid an awful lot for them, L200, I believe. Do you understand about the Aztec gods?
The voyage from Panama to, the pearl islands was a long one, but far from unpleasant. Sixty days after leaving port the adventurers were safely landed, with all their effects.
"It's a little matter of five thousand dollars to you, if you can trace what I want." There is no foolishness in Lee's set features. He throws himself back, studying his cigar ash. That five thousand dollars is an "open sesame." "What's her name?" Joseph produces his notes. "Do you remember Hardin sending some people to Panama, in '65?" begins the Colonel. "Two women and two children.
Is it to be assumed that with the new development for Africa and Asia, Europe is going to abandon her interest on the continents of America? Will not the very force of these developments make a foundation for European developments in North and South America? Have we not seen that the British Empire has still some interest in the Panama canal?
Some of them went inland to a rocky cliff, to watch the seas for ships coming northward from Peru with treasure from the gold and silver mines. The islands are in the fairway between Panama and Lima, but ten days passed before the watchers saw a sail, and cried out to those in the boat.
As they trod across the thick carpet Buck Mulligan whispered behind his Panama to Haines: Parnell's brother. There in the corner. They chose a small table near the window, opposite a longfaced man whose beard and gaze hung intently down on a chessboard. Is that he? Haines asked, twisting round in his seat. Yes, Mulligan said. That's John Howard, his brother, our city marshal.
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