A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume X - By Robert Kerr


















































































































 -  Some of them are planted with bananas, plantains, and rice by
negroes belonging to the inhabitants of Panama. The channel - Page 394
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Some Of Them Are Planted With Bananas, Plantains, And Rice By Negroes Belonging To The Inhabitants Of Panama.

The channel between these islands and the continent is seven or eight leagues broad, of a moderate depth, and has good anchorage all the way.

These isles lie very close together, yet have channels between them fit for boats.

At one end of St Paul's Island, there is a good careening place, in a deep channel inclosed by the land, into which the entrance is on the north side, where the tide rises ten feet. We brought our ships in on the 25th, being spring tide, and having first cleaned our barks, we sent them on the 27th to cruise towards Panama. The fourth day after, they brought us in a prize coming from Lavelia, laden with maize or Indian corn, salted beef and fowls. Lavelia is a large town on the bank of a river which runs into the north side of the bay of Panama, and is seven leagues from the sea; and Nata is another town situated in a plain on a branch of the same river.[172] These two places supply Panama with beef, hogs, fowls, and maize. In the harbour where we careened, we found abundance of oysters, muscles, limpits, and clams, which last are a kind of oysters, which stick so close to the rocks that they must be opened where they grow, by those who would come at their meat. We also found here some pigeons and turtle-doves.

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