
Harry A. Franck was an American travel writer. After publishing <i>Vagabond Journey Around the World</i>, he spent 3 months in the Canal Zone of Panama as a census-taker and police officer. This work is a series of vignettes of the Panama Canal under construction, with plenty of color and dialect. NOTE: There are racial terms and attitudes expressed in this work that will be objectionable today. - Summary by TriciaG