432 JUNCTION OF THE TWO OCEANS. 



money so expended ; but should this ever be 

 effected, there is a still more desirable plan of 

 uniting the two oceans through the^ Isthmus 

 of Panama, where two rivers may be connect- 

 ed by a canal, cut through a level valley, 

 about a league and a half. This junction 

 would enable steam-vessels to pass from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific ocean; — and previously 

 to quitting Bogota, I formed a plan for a com- 

 pany to be established in England for effect- 

 ing this, which will be laid before the ensuing 

 Congress. 



From this spot I arrived, after an hour's 

 walk, at the Tambo of Citera. It was empty, 

 and constructed like the one I had left. I 

 here discharged all my peons but one, and de- 

 termined on waiting until the canoe should 

 arrive for me, which ought to have been in 

 waiting. 



I was rather at a loss how to cook my dinner, 

 and was obliged to eat my salt beef and pork 

 fried on the embers, and my eggs roasted. 

 How to make my chocolate I did not know ; 

 at last I thought of the only tin pot I had, for 

 drinking out of. I tried it, and finding that it 



