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VOYAGE TO PANAMA. 



host of sharks^ whose fins I saw protruding 

 above water all around us. The appearance of 

 this danger^ made me adhere to the perpendi- 

 cular like a statue. As for the rowers, however 

 accustomed to the passage, they seemed any 

 thing but skilful; for instead of pulling together, 

 every man took delight in paddling out of time, 

 and keeping the canoe in a constant state of 

 wabbling; making her describe so serpentine 

 a course, that I several times begged to know 

 if they really supposed I wished to return to 

 the Pearl Islands, instead of being taken to 

 Panama, At last, by the blessing of Provi- 

 dence, we arrived under the walls of the city, 

 and I was stranded on the shore, too glad 

 to escape any how from the sharks, to care for 

 being wet to the skin. 



I was now landed at Panama, where the 



