Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Around the Caribbean and Across Panama
The years changed and the scene changed, the power of Spain in the new world was con firmed to her, and those who crossed Panama, returning with cargoes of the products of her settlements, or with gold wrung from the la bours of Indian slaves, had not so much to fear; but blood still marked the trail, slaves staggered under heavy burdens, or tottered along as fever burned out their lives, while the cruel eye of the Spanish master regarded not the suffering, but took note only of the waning strength while his relentless whip urged on the way, that the Indian slave might deliver his cargo ere death should take him. These were cruel scenes, and crueller sufferings on the route across Panama, where every inch has been stained with blood; and could the ghosts of those who died on that route rise again to mock the living, the scenes they could con J u're up might not be well en dured.
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