We also had a bath until a fish ran into me about three feet long and cut two gashes in my leg.

We reached Amapala about four in the afternoon.

It was an awful place; dirt and filth and no room to move about, so we chartered an open boat to sail or row to Corinto sixty miles distant.

You see, we could not go back to Tegucigalpa until the steamer arrived which is to take us South of Panama and we could not go to Manaqua either and for the same reason that we had sent back our mule train and we would not wait in Amapala partly because of fever which had been there and partly because we wanted to get to Corinto where they have ice and to see Manaqua.

The boat was about as long as the Vagabond and twice as deep and a foot or two more across her beam.