Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 412
to the isthmus, and even to-daymuch of it is rotting and rusting there in thetropical climate. The whole length of the pro-posed canal is marked by these monuments tomans mismanagement and greed. Extensivecamps and hospitals were built on the route ofthe canal, and thousands of workmen were… … I-EKDINAXD DE LESSHPS IN HIS CHILDREN S PONY-CART. ment of machinery and workmen arrived in in digging the big ditch. But so inhospitable Colon on February 21, 1881, and almost im- was the climate that thousands of lives were mediately began one of the most dramatic sacrificed to the…
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