CHAPTER THIRTY-FIRST.--Bay of Panama--Its Beauties--Tropical Fruits--The

City in sight--Excitement on Board--Appearance of the City--Her Ruins--Preparations to Drop Anchor--“Stand by!”--“Let go the Anchor!”--Farewell to the Sick--A Perilous Ride on the Back of an Individual--On Shore--First Dinner--Nothing left--An Individual feeling comfortable--Panama Americanized--A Moonlight Scene viewed from a Brass “Fifty-Six”--A Dilapidated Convent as seen at Night--Church Bells--Burning the Dead--Exposure of the Desecrated Remains--Sickening and Disgusting Sight--Infants cast into Pits--The Rescue of their Souls requiring a Gigantic Effort on the part of the Church--A Catacomb--“Eternal Light”--Ignorance of the Mass--Peerless Characteristics, 184