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CUSTOMS AND DRESS OF THE NOBILITY—A SUSPICIOUS INDIVIDUAL—JOURNEY TO PANAMA— 
ANIGHT PROCESSION—A WEALTHY LADY IN “ BLOOMER”—AN AGREEABLE NIGHT SUR¬ 
PRISE—“ HUSH ” ON HORSE BACK—CAPTAIN TYLER SHOT—A MOUNTAIN PASS AT NIGHT- 
THUNDER STORM IN THE TROPICS. 
The town is pleasantly situated about fifty feet above the 
level of the river, and contains some eight hundred inhabitants. 
At the time of our arrival, there were about five hundred Amer¬ 
icans encamped in the town. The buildings are mostly con¬ 
structed of reed, thatched with palm-leaf. (See Plate). A ham¬ 
mock is slung under the eave of one of these houses, occupied 
by the mother, in the act of administering to the wants of a little 
ohe; an open countenanced dog. is near, as if waiting to re¬ 
lieve the child, a senora is shelling corn, and a hog is looking 
or, one foot raised, in readiness to obey the first summons. 
The people dress, as in Chagres, with the addition, in some 
cases, of half a yard of linen and a string of beads. The Al¬ 
calde and his lady were generally well dressed; but, as strange 
as is may appear, they were always accompanied in their morn¬ 
ing yalks by their son, a lad of fourteen, his entire costume con- 
sistiilg of a Panama hat. In the evening of the day of our 
arrival, we observed our worthy boatman making himself 
familbr around the American tents. Soon the police were on 
the alprt, and we were informed that he was one of the most 
notorious thieves in the country. lie had landed back, thinks¬ 
ing it sVfer to come into town at night. We had our baggage 
carried \p, and were soon residents of the American part of the 
town. 1 was here put in possession of facts which strengthened 
my suspicions of the individual who passed down the river on 
the previous night; and, in the sequel, instead of returning to 
Gorgona, he, on his arrival at Ghagres, hired a native to carry 
