Mosman 1914-1918

island close to the mainland. The wharf we came in at was a square concrete structure with all the centre hollow in which the coal was heaped. There are some fine pieces of machinery there. All the coaling is done by machinery It is impossible to describe it with a pen. On the other side of our wharf we could see the old French canal built by De Lesseps. On the mainland the town of Colon is built and it looks very pretty to see the white houses and clumps of palms after seeing nothing but water for weeks. After we finished coaling we pulled out into the bay & lay at anchor with the Themesticles

N.W. and following the line of the Canal as close as possible, is a railway which crosses the Isthmus from Panama City to Colon, a town at the Atlantic end of the Canal. All around the entrance to the Canal there is a large tract of swampy country covered with scrub growing to the height of about 6 feet. The