FROM ANCON TO THE ISLAND 



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the night, and found it too large to pull through 

 the iron grating. 



I carried the egg back to my room and hurriedly 

 dressed in the same heavy cotton clothes I wear 

 comfortably while tramping through the Indiana 



Fig. 8. Bachelors' quarters in Ancon 



dunes in the springtime. With my khaki trousers 

 I put on leather puttees and heayy boots, which 

 help to keep off ticks, and might have saved me a 

 snake bite in case I met a poisonous snake. I may 

 add that I never did meet a poisonous snake in 

 the jungle. I put on a tie and a coat because 

 white men are expected to wear them in that 

 part of the world, and when I was thus dressed 

 up I completed my costume with a limp cloth 



