What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

THE CITY OF PANAMA) AND ENVIRONS.
common mother, desire to pluck the "fruit of the tree of knowledge," must at great cost employ private teachers to show them
how-a dangerous experiment oftentimes, for the knowledge
"of good" and the knowledge "of evil" are so apt to become
confounded under the tuition of a modern Apollo, that many a
young Hlebe learns that there is a serpent's sting in the arts of
her teacher, only when she has realized the earliest sorrow of
Eden.
The American traveller destined for the west coast of
America, on arriving at Panama, must amiably lay aside home
habits and conform himself to customs as he finds them. lie
cannot reasonably expect to change the usages of the countries
he proposes to visit, and therefore must change his own. This
ready adaptation will invite freedom of communication, a desirable means of information to a stranger; and although he may
be required to breakfast at ten, and dine at five to seven, going
supperless to bed, he will soon find nature under physiological
laws accommodatingly inclined; and even if he be required to
live, as he assuredly will, in an atmosphere of tobacco smoke, he
may philosophically yield to its soporific influence, and become
unconscious of actual annoyance in dreams of bliss. Servant he
must be to himself where all are on an equality, and where the
negro, having been restored to his original privilege of indolence,
would rather suffer want than perform a servile office, or labor
in any form. As to the ceaseless pounding of bell-metal, giving
clamorous expression to religious fervor, which would thus arrest the attention of heaven and commend itself to divine approval, forgetful that the unuttered prayer of the truly penitent
pierceth beyond the din of the self-righteous, one need not'consider this a reflection on his less demonstrative notions of what
is right and acceptable, but rather let the "sounding brass and
tinkling cymbal" remind him of the "charity" that "endureth
all things and hopeth all things," and thus while it teaches him
to bear, it will serve also to encourage his hope of the future.
For recollecting as he will the "ftre worshippers" of his own
country who once gloried in the grandeur of the wild element,
and their achievements in staying its career, the echo even of whose
discordant clamor is lost in the scarcely heard pulsations of the
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