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[[underlined in red]] will try to follow [[/underlined in red]] in [[underlined in red]] their own countries. [[/underlined in red]] Nor should I be astonished if before many years the canal zone became a [[underlined in red]] prosperous white man's settlement, [[/underlined in red]] where ranches, and recreation resorts and [[underlined in red]] hotels [[/underlined in red]] would flourish. What impresses me much is that altho' the canal is [[underlined in red]] barely a few years in operation [[/underlined in red]] everything seems so [[underlined in red]] well settled and quiet. [[/underlined in red]] 
I saw no digging or dredging except at one point of the Culebra cut, where some of the slopes of the shore were being washed off hydraulically so as to insure a better angle of repose, Then further on near Christobal we met some dredgers at work but everything seemed [[underlined in red]] quiet [[/underlined in red]]
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[[underlined in red]] and reposeful [[/underlined in red]] in comparison to some of our Northern dredging operations. Every launch or rowboat, or tug or dredge on the canal [[underlined in red]] looks spick and span. [[/underlined in red]] Brass all polished and wood well painted and varnished Most of the unskilled labor and quite some of the skilled labor, as for instance running the motor launches is done by stalwart [[underlined in red]] West-Indian Negroes [[/underlined in red]] At one part of the Culebra cut, one of the passengers called out attention to a [[underlined in red]] 12 foot alligator [[/underlined in red]] who was lazily sunning itself on a sandy spot of the shore. 
We left Christobal dock at about 6 A. M and ought to have been thru the canal by noon. But on account of some work being done at