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pools, and lying out for deer during the night. 

 This last occupation was by no means agreeable, 

 owing to the swarms of mosquitoes, ticks, and 

 other vermin, which gave us no peace. Our 

 host told us that he usually built himself a plat- 

 form in a tree, under which the deer came to 

 feed during the night, and in this way he had 

 killed hundreds without being molested by 

 mosquitoes ; such luxurious kind of shooting is 

 certainly excusable in these countries, but we 

 had no time to enjoy it. 



The country about Limon is most beautiful, 

 resembling an English park, with fine timber 

 and rich grass on which many hundred head 

 of fat cattle are pastured. Not far from the 

 hacienda is the village of Choreros, a favourite 

 bathing-place of the Panamanians during the 

 hot season. Declining the 'kind offer of our 

 host to stay and have some deer and wild pig 

 shooting, we returned on board. 



Notwithstanding the immense importance of 

 the Port of Panama, and the large number of 

 vessels trading to it, there is not a single 



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