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white cranes standing about. Went on down into
the extreme end of Panama City where is located
an early Spanish Fort, later used as a Panamanian
Prison and now is a public square. There
were a lot of statues of Frenchmen and others
connected with the building of the French canal
which was never completed. De Lesseps was one of
these men. Here we had gorgeous view of the
Pacific Ocean. Then we drove to the Flat Arch
which is in an old ruined Cathedral that dates
back to 1640 and the arch is a very wide
flat span of about 40 feet. Next we went
to see the Gold Altar in another present
day Cathedral. History tells us that this altar
is of solid gold and was once buried to hide it
from the pirates. It stands about 30 feet
high and is about 20 feet wide. Drove
up to Nick's place to have a round of good
old German beer. Nicks place is on
Santa Anna Plaza. Next stopped at the
Hotel International for more drinks -- I took
a rum-punch which was potent. The streets
are narrow, all traffic on the left side, which
confused me very much. The shops were most
fascinating -- so many enticing things in the
windows. We stopped in at [I.] L. Maduro's on
Cathedral Plaza as Bill wished to show me
the shrunken heads, just as large as your fist
and a perfect human head. The features perfect,
and hair, eyebrows, and lashes in perfect condition.
On one heads the hair had grown long and it was
most terrible to look at. Our next stop was at
the Country Club where had two drinks
apiece, I still drinking rum-punches. Met
Dune Walton here and had little chat -- he
was stationed on the "Seattle". We returned to
the Knights' home -- just opposite the Tivoli
Hotel -- for dinner. It was a most attractive
house with palms and flowers in the yard and
vines all over the double porches. The porches
were on three sides had the same for upper
story as for first story of the house -- it was
so unusual to me -- the outside wall in
back -- so must be very cool. The porches
were all screened in. The dinner was
delicious -- honey dew melon, crabs in casserole
cucumbers sliced whole and covered with French dressing,