 | Fessenden Nott Otis - 1862 - 292 σελίδες
...place. Another station was also established eight miles distant, opposite to the native town of Gatun, on the bank of the Chagres River, which was navigable...return to Chagres, the passengers should be transported over the railroad to Gatun, from whence they could proceed up the river in bongoes as usual. There... | |
 | Fessenden Nott Otis - 1867 - 336 σελίδες
...established eight miles distant, opposite to the native town of Gatun, on the bank of the Chagres Eiver, which was navigable to this point ; and two of the...return to Chagres, the passengers should be transported over the railroad to Gatun, from whence they could proceed up the river in bongoes as usual. There... | |
 | California Historical Society - 1928 - 886 σελίδες
...Aspinwall [Colon] in Navy Bay. One of the historians of the Panama Railroad14 also describes this event: The weather was so tempestuous that, after several...been lost in attempting to effect a landing, they (the Georgia and the Philadelphia) were forced to take refuge in the harbor of Navy Bay. It was then... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1859 - 888 σελίδες
...roadstead of Chagres with passengers from the United States en route for California via the Chagres River transit; but the weather was so tempestuous that,...return to Chagres, the passengers should be transported over the railroad to Gatnn, from whence they could proceed up the river in bongoes as usual. There... | |
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Transit ; but the weather was so tempestuous that, after several lives had been lost in attempting to effect a landing, they were forced to take refuge in the harbor of Navy Bay. It was then proposed that, instead of waiting for fair weather in order... 