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An eyewitness travel account recounts a physician’s voyage from the American Midwest to Panama and back, mixing practical travel notes with medical observations. It follows sea passages and stops at ports such as Colón, Port Limón, and Panama City, describes hotels, rail travel across the isthmus, tropical climate and health risks, local customs and entertainments including bullfighting and social banquets, the ruins of earlier canal efforts and contemporary canal works, and participation in a Pan-American medical congress. Interlaced are humorous anecdotes about food, seasickness, and tropical maladies, plus reflections on infrastructure, commerce and daily life during a season of travel.

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Title: To Panama and back

The record of an experience

Author: Henry T. Byford

Release date: February 24, 2023 [eBook #70130]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: W. B. Conkey Company, 1908

Credits: Alan and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TO PANAMA AND BACK ***

TO PANAMA
AND BACK

THE RECORD OF AN EXPERIENCE

BY

HENRY T. BYFORD, M. D.

W. B. CONKEY COMPANY

CHICAGO

Copyright, 1908,
BY
Henry T. Byford, M. D.

DEDICATED
to the
Panama Canal Commissioners,
who invited the President of the United States
to run down and see them dig the Canal
while he waited;
and to the President,
who went to the Canal and found them asleep,
and didn’t wait until it was dug.

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