Consulting Engineers, 118-
119, 121-123.
Locks of the Canal, 134-136,
171, 397-398; description
of, 134 135, 402-403;
method and time of passage,
135-136, 400-402; material
required for, 171.
Lock-canal plans, 121-140; the
plan of the minority of
Board of Consulting En-
gineers, 121-123; present
plan, 123-140.
Lombardi, Señor, 385.
Los Santos, 424.
Louis Philippe, 26.
Lull, Captain E. P., 33.
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23-27, 29-32, 34, 36, 38, 84-
89, 100-102; first transit line
at Nicaragua, 15; British
designs for acquisition of,
18-19; Aaron Palmer's proj-
ect, 23-25; investigations
by the United States, 25-
26; French interests in, 26-
27; United States
right of way by, 29; Clay-
ton-Bulwer treaty, 30-31;
transportation line estab
lished by an American com-
pany, 31-32; the Interna-
tional Canal
recommends the, 34; an-
Commission
other French attempt, 36;
a concession granted to
Americans, 38; French op-
pose American projects, 83-
84; Nicaragua and the
United States make a con-
vention, 84-85; Maritime
Canal Company's project,
85; Walker Commission in-
vestigates the, 86, 88; cam-
paign in Congress in favor
of the, 100; comparison of
Panama Route and the, 101.
Noble, Alfred, 117-120.
Obaldia, Don José de, 364,
379, 380, 420.
Obaldia, Don Lorenzo de, 381-
383.
Ojeda, Alonzo de, 5.
Palmer, Aaron H., 23-25.
Panama Canal Company, 63-
90; vide "French Enter-
prise, The."
Panama, City of, 158-161,
283-304, 413, 414, 433;
sanitation by the United
States, 158-161; relocation
of, 283-285; old walls of,
284-287; strange working
of the law in, 287-294; the
people, 295; the police, 296-
299; the houses of the, 299-
304.
Panama, Definition of Ameri-
can policy toward, 105-106.
Panama, Independence of, 99.
Panama, Railroad, 32, 41-62,
164-174, 407; the under-
taking by an American syn-
dicate, 41-47; labor diffi-
culties, 45-46; prosperous
operation, 47-50; decline
and transfer to the French,
50-58; acquisition by the
United States, 58; improve-
ment and relocation, 59-
62, 413-414, 418; the Com-
pany's holdings in Colon,
167-168; description of line
from Colon to La Boca, 168-
173.
Panama, Route, 27-29, 33-40,
99-101; the first French
concession, 27-29; early
American investigations of,
33-34; concession secured
by Wyse for French Syn-
dicate, 35-36, vide "French
Enterprise, The"; United
States makes a convention
with Panama, 99-100; com-
parison of Panaman and
Nicaraguan Routes, 101.
Panama, United States con-
vention with, 99-100, and
Appendix.
Panama Viejo, 179–282.
Park, Trenor W., 57.
Parsons, William B., 103, 117-
Randolph, Isham, 117-120.
Reclus, Lieutenant, 36, 38.
Resources of the country, 328-
347; hardwoods, 328-330,
423-425, 429; rubber, 330-
332, 424, 432; cattle lands,
335-337, 423, 425, 429, 430;
sugar lands, 337, 429, 431-
433; tobacco, 338; coffee, 338,
432-433; fibres, 338; fruits,
339-340, 432; minerals,
340-341, 424.
Ripley, Joseph, 117–120.
Roosevelt, President, 97-99,
103, 106, 114-120, 126, 136,
141, 405.
Rourke, L. K., 143.
Rousseau, H. H., 142, 144,
161-163.
Saavedra, Alvaro de, 11.
Sage, Russell, 57.
Sanitation on the Isthmus, 69–
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