sombrero-attired

Updated: May 15, 2025

Arriving at Aspinwall, the point of debarkation, on the Atlantic side, boats and boatsmen were engaged to transport passengers and baggage up the "Chagress," a small and shallow river. Crossing the Isthmus to Panama, on the Pacific side, I found Panama very cosmopolitan in appearance, for mingled with the sombrero-attired South American, could be seen denizens from every foreign clime.

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs - Shadow and Light : An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century