Mosman 1914-1918

I sat watching it after I had finished my washing. 10-30 land just showing on the starboard bow. Passed a big tramp steamer. Land on port is very mountainous. Some island very close, very pretty running down in wooded slopes to the water. Weather beautiful, though a bit hot & water calm. Pulled up off a pretty group of islands about noon & waited for pilot. About 2pm. we started for the mouth of the Panama Canal. Around the entrance there is a big bay and all along the right shore there are great cranes & dredges and a railway running west. Where the canal starts there are flat swamps covered with thick

& they looked very pretty as they are heavily timber -ed and the wooded slopes run right down to the water. About noon we dropped anchor & waited for the pilot to come out to us. As soon as dinner was over there was a rush to the boatdeck & about 2 p.m. ew weighed anchor & started for Panama City & the entrance of the Panama Canal. As we got close in to land