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...Scotsman who early removed to the Bahamas. In the Bahamas he preached to the planters' servants, learned from pirates the lore of the Spanish Main, conceived a scheme. The southern reaches of the Isthmus of Panama were known as Darien. From a peak in Darien Balboa first saw the Pacific. Soon the Spaniards were transporting their Inca loot across the Isthmus...
Genuine it sounded to Washington. The Navy ordered a cruiser and two destroyers to Acajutla, on the Pacific coast of El Salvador, near Sousonate. Loaded with marines they set out from Balboa under full steam. Two Canadian destroyers, which happened to be passing, put into Acajutla, two days ahead of the U. S. ships. Great Britain sent a cruiser to prevent "much bloodshed...
...than once find irritating in the course of its 439 leisurely pages. Narrator Spenlove-McFee tells his tortuous tale in his own way and cannot be hurried. While the passengers of S. S. Camotan, on a Caribbean pleasure-cruise, fretted at not being allowed to go ashore at Puerto Balboa because a revolution had just broken out there, Chief Engineer Spenlove entertained some of them with a tale. The day before. Puerto Balboa's harbormaster, Capt. Frank Fraley, had blown out his brains. That was the end of the story. Narrator Spenlove told his audience the beginning and middle...
...Fraley back Francine knifed her. Because his British susceptibilities were offended, Fraley would not marry Francine after that, but they lived together when he was ashore, many turbulent years. Francine wrecked Fraley's career; he lost his job and was glad to get the post of harbormaster at Puerto Balboa. Up to the very day Francine died of heart-failure they quarreled like hell-cat & bulldog, loved each other passionately. At the end Fraley sent for a priest to marry them, but it was too late. And with Francine gone, his world tumbling about his ears, Harbormaster Fraley shot himself...
...food because they had exhausted the supply of coconuts near the beach, and that they would return about Nov. 4. The Camargo circled the island, firing her one-pound gun, blowing her whistle, got no response from shore. Then Mr. Fleischmann radioed the U. S. naval base at Balboa, C. Z., whence the gunboat Sacramento was despatched to Cocos Island with medical supplies, a powerful searchlight, equipment for a hazardous search of the island's trackless interior. From Cocos Island the Fleischmann yacht is bound for the Galapagos, Marquezas, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Samoa, Suva, Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Guinea...