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Panama and the canal zone : illustrated from actual photographs with descriptive matter accompanying each view scenes of the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific showing locks in operation and vessels in transit. Also the most interesting points of interest in the towns of Colon-Cristobal, Panama City and vicinity. Also native life in the Republic of Panama
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