We gave up our idea of riding here direct because they assured us we could get a steam launch from Amapala to Corinto so we rode three days to San Lorenzo on the Pacific side and took an open boat from there to Amapala.

It was rowed by four men who walked up a notched log and then fell back dragging the sweeps back, with the weight of their bodies.
It was a moonlight night and they looked very picturesque rising and sinking back and outlined against the sky.

They were naked to the waist and rowed all night and I had a good chance to see them as I had to lie on the bottom of the boat on three mahogany logs.

By ten the next day we were too cramped to stand it, so we put ashore on a deserted island and played Robinson Crusoe.

We had two biscuits and a box of sardines among five of us but we found oysters on the rocks and knocked a lot off with clubs and stones and the butts of our guns.
They were very good.