Washington, The country shows a verdant moist appearance and very lively but rather low the whole landscape covered by forests of palms & various flowering trees. At the hotel the chief amusement is bathing in an open tank connected by a wall with the sea, The bathers are numerous at 4 P. M. & again at 8 or 9 AM. but even at noon many are seen in the tank bare headed as usual. Apparently the sun even at midday never produces sunstroke here. 11: The party left at 11 A.M. on the Panama RR for the Chagres River Bridge where we took a launch up the river. Mr. Barnett and his wife accompanied us. The trip along the RR was very interesting botanically. Many dead trees were seen standing in the flooded Chagres