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Title: Pacific shores from Panama
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Peixotto, Ernest Clifford, 1869-1940
Subjects: Pacific Coast (South America) -- Description and travel Latin America -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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f fever—the last nightmare tohaunt its morasses—has been conjured away, thanksto sanitary measures that will serve as models to allthe world. Under army supervision the death ratein the Canal Zone has been reduced to a lower per-centage than in any of the large cities of the UnitedStates. Panama City of to-day dates from the latter half ofthe seventeenth century. Old Panama, the city ofthe conquistadores, lay a few miles distant, and weshall visit its ruins presently. The newer city pos-sesses all the picturesque features, all the charm of anold Spanish town. Its streets are not straight andregular, as in most Latin-American cities, but wriggleand turn and twist out from and back to the longAvenida Central, the main street that traverses thecity from end to end, containing the principal shopsand crossing all the plazas. The houses are substantially built and washed withthose pastel tones—rose, pale blue, water green, buff,and grey—of which the Spanish peoples are so fond- (24)
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S •^ t« TvoTVo The Cathedral, Panama PACIFIC SHORES FROM PANAMA Verandas, as in Colon, overhang all the thorough-fares, and the indolent Panamans spend much oftheir time upon them or lounging about the numer-ous cafes and hostelries. There are several plazas. The old church of SantaAna overlooks one; another is named for Bolivar,liberator of Spanish America and founder of its re-pubhcs; and, appropriately enough, the governmentbuildings, a little tawdry perhaps, and the post-officelie near it. The third, and this is the largest andmost important, is named for the cathedral thatfronts upon it—a charming square planted withhandsome palms and tropical gardens. The cathedralfagade, while not bearing critical analysis, has all theallure of the big Spanish churches, and the other re-ligious edifices of the city are picturesque and some-times rarely charming in colour. No matter what else you miss in Panama, do notneglect a walk upon the Bovedas, or city walls thatskirt the gulf. These

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