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hat much more useful than beautiful. I found no 

 need of the cork helmets often thought necessary. 

 Across the Bay of Panama the east was growing 

 faintly lighter. It was always a temptation to 

 stand and watch the spectacle of the sun rising 

 over the Pacific Ocean, which gives one a very 

 odd feeling unless he studies carefully the map 

 of the Isthmus. But there was not much time 

 for that. I slung over my shoulder the knapsack 

 holding my collecting outfit and my lunch, and 



Fig. 9. Royal palms overlooking the plaijis of Panama 



was away down Ancon Hill to the restaurant, 

 under an avenue of rubber trees and palms, past 

 two solidly built blocks of hospital. 



