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that ever was traveled by human beaings [beings] through
deep ravines through the rocks some places not
more than three wide and as much as 20 to 30 feet
in depth and either up a presapice [precipice] or down and
other places over an emince [eminence] pile of paving stones
and then and then again in the mud and water
up to our neys [knees] and some times deeper I cannot
describe it as bad as it is we arrived at Panama
about seven Oclock in the eavning [evening] as wet and mudy [muddy]
as we could with out any change of cloths [clothes] and
had not been dry from the time we left Chagres
we have good quarters here now and our baggage
has arrived and we are a dooing [doing] very well all in
good health and what is strange none of us have
caught coalds [colds] it is very warm here as warm as the
warmest weather we have in New York in the
Sumer [Summer] we had green corn roasted for Dinner on
New Years day and thus [this] was nearly all we could
get. Panama is an oald [old] Spanish town but so'what [somewhat]
run down but it is a place of some considerable
business the buildings are of brick covered over with
plaster but built diferant [different] from any other buildings
I ever saw it is a very oald [old] place strongly fortified
and all walled in we had to enter by a gate
we are [in a] large hotel called the United States and is
a good house and we have a plenty to eat of
the best kind more diferant [different] dish[es] on the table
at once than I ever saw and I do not know
what one half of them are nor do not taste of
them nor do I eat of which there is a great plenty
of all kind of tropicals fruits I only eat what
I have been used to for fear it would not agree
with me it beeing [being] so warm the Boys are equaly [equally]
careful I cannot say when we shall leave here
as the steamer has not yet arrived nor hav [have]