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Putnam, David Binney / David goes voyaging
(1925)
We start on our cruise, pp. [11]-19 ff.
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WE START ON OUR CRUISE
FOR a day after our arrival on the Arctuus
we waited in Colon while the crew shifted
coal from one bunker to another because
it was getting so hot in the forward one
there was fear of its catching on fire.
And on the very first day while the rest of
the crowd were ashore seeing the city of
Colon, which is at the Atlantic entrance of
the Panama Canal, I went with Serge, the
Russian taxidermist to a little beach across
the bay. We took nets with us and were
lucky to catch some wonderful butterflies,
several very bright blue fish and some un-
usual shells.
N t'day we started through the, Canal
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