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39 market boats landing on the beach - brought their stuff up into the place of sale. The principal articles sold are jerked beef - pork -beans - corn - barley - eggs - cocoa - banana - plantain - euca - oranges - limes pine apples &c. The women attended the stalls. They are dull salesmen - scarcely paying enough attention to answer purchasers questions. The market bungies are huge canois: moved by sails or by long sweeps. In rowing - the man whose seat is high - rises, moves forward dips his oar and settles with the motion back to his seat. The island of Tobaga [Taboga] furnishes the market. It is distant some 6 miles. Near the market is the Governor's House - a gloomy old house. The court dirty and piles with goods - being used as a storage by the merchats. He has a country residence a few miles from the city - where his family generally remain. Adjoining the Governo's is the Custom House - and Post Office. These places indicate little business. Most of the commerce of Panama consist in shipments received - it having little to offer in exchange for its imports. The coffee - flour - nuts &c are brought up the coast in small vessels. Whalers sometimes put in here for stores - and ships bound up to the Mexican or Oregon coast - are sometimes consigned to the respective consuls resident here. This is the amount of Panama trade. Two Pasadoes or prisons - contain each a number of convicts. The soldiers are the jailers. The employment of the prisoners is braiding straw - and from their dismal rooms - they assail the visitor with hands outstreched for rials - crying - "me mucho pauvre!" They are also employed in repairing the streets - when they are chained together. With buckets made of hides - they bring up sand from the beach. Trudging slowly along in the hot sun - or working with the utmost leisure - they are an improvement on the general torpid movements of the inhabitants. The soldiers their keepers look lazier and more weary then the convicts. The Pasades of Panama serve for a section of the surrounding country. The Barracks and Soldiers - Military Equipments and Discipline are in as drearyed condition as the Town itself. The Garrison consist of about 20 men. A belt cartridge box - flint lock musket a hanger - and blue cap with red striped - constitutes the Soldiers equipment. These men often paraded through the streets - preceeded by fife and drum - now to head a religious procession - or now to squell a disturbance. Their quarters did not appear very comfortable to me.