Contents

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I.Happy Days[1]
II.About the City[19]
III.A Trip to Old Panama[26]
IV.Story of the Buccaneers[36]
V.An Earthquake[60]
VI.A Journey[71]
VII.Culebra[81]
VIII.Balboa[90]
IX.Colon[96]
X.Up the Chagres River[102]
XI.New Ambition[115]

List of Illustrations

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Vasco Barretas[Frontispiece]
Lieutenant Amadeo Barretas[4]
A Street in Panama[22]
The Tower of the Old Cathedral[55]
"'That scoop will dig out of the mountain a ton of earth at a time'"[80]
A Native Village[110]

VASCO
Our Little Panama Cousin