Away down south in the Torrid Zone,
North latitude nearly nine,

Where eight months' pour once past
and o'er

The sun four months doth shine; Where 'tis eighty six the year around, And people rarely agree;

Where the plaintain grows and the hot wind blows,

Lies the Land of the Cocoanut

Tree.

Gilbert.

PICTUREQUE PANAMA AND

THE GREAT CANAL

RALPH EMMETT AVERY