CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
Foreword[11]
I.Where the Prowling is Good[13]
II.The Trail of the Pirates[26]
III.Picturesque Panama[41]
IV.A City of Ghosts[55]
V.The Spell of the Jungle[65]
VI.Life at the Bottom[76]
VII.The Interior[93]
VIII.Economic Waste[109]
IX.Panama and Progress[122]
X.Knowing Our Neighbors[144]
XI.The Family Tree[160]
XII.Latin-American Heart[178]
XIII.The Caribbean World[193]
XIV.The Panama Canal[214]
XV.Prowling into the Future[235]