With each dollar that had to be spent for food and lodging, the means of buying or bribing oneself aboard a steamer diminished.
Many
disappointed gold-seekers resigned themselves to a seventy or eighty
day voyage on a windjammer. There was no lack of sailing craft to take
them to California. Some few deluded ones tried to persuade native
boatmen to undertake the trip in canoes!
Those
who persisted in waiting for the steamer might amuse themselves in the
highways and byways of the old Spanish city. The town hall is shown right; the Cathedral of Panama, below.
