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245 the Cars were to start for Panama.- here we were told the Cars would not go till next morning- this we did not like however' as we could not help ourselves- we have to make the best of it- so we engaged Rooms, rather beds, all in one room, at the United States Hotel, / as they called it here/. here we ere obliged to pay one day, in advance, to secure our beds etc- so we paid, and had our Room shown us, where we put our things, and then cleaned up a little- afterwards some of our party went out to see if the Rail Road Co would not dispatch a special train, with our passengers,- they finally decided to do so,- so we collected our things together again, and told the Landlord, how it was- and he paid us back our money- we then left for the Cars, where we sat till about 1 Pm before we started- we had not much time to see the place here, neither did it require much time to see all there was here to be seen- there are but few buildings here, being quite a new place- the land is very low & wet, all a swamp- buildings set on stilts, / most of them,/ - and were I to select a place where should think sicknesses, or Diseases of all kinds, might abound- it would be this place- stagnant water, covers most of the place here- notwithstanding the Town is so near the