“We gave the woman for her trouble a generous fee, with which she was highly pleased, and proceeded to put it in the bed under her sleeping husband's head. We laughingly told her not to put it there as he might get it, and it was money she had earned herself. She appreciated the joke, though it was told mostly by gestures, but seemed to have true ideas of the matrimonial relation, and was nothing loath to trust her all with him. page. 116” LifeMarriageWifeLiving Book:A Winter in Central America and Mexico. Source: A Winter in Central America and Mexico.
“only 10 million of the required 250 million cubic meters of earth had yet been removed. The undertaking is a vast one, far exceeding that of the Suez canal, and every one there believed it would not be finished for many years” PanamaPanama CanalCanal Book:A Winter in Central America and Mexico. Source: A Winter in Central America and Mexico.
“we passed Costa Rica, and were near land. We had a most gorgeous sunset, and a full moon at night; besides, the water was all aglow with brilliant phosphorescence, which looked like great fiery serpents playing about the steamer” MoonSunsetCosta RicaAlgowPacific Coast Book:A Winter in Central America and Mexico. Source: A Winter in Central America and Mexico.