California History, March 22nd, 2004
March 27th 1849
Panama, Nueva Granada
Dear Brother, I wrote to you by return of the steamship Alabama, giving you an account of my voyage across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, and I was in hopes that I would have it in my power to send you a full description of the Isthmus of Panama by return of the same vessel. But being from choice, and not from necessity, ten days in crossing the Isthmus and not wishing to send you a partial description of this singular and wonderful country, I have deferred writing until I have had the opportunity of seeing the whole of it. Let me in the out...
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