Risking your LIFE + Tropical diseases + Transporting 50 lb. boxes of dynamite on your head + hot and humid Climate= The Life of a [PA[iN]AM[A%@] Canal Construction worker
Jan. 1, 1889
First day of Work for me we had seven people who were fortunate not to make the full trip to Panama on our boatload. All died of natural causes, I guess. But when we got off the boat the white man gave us a look of disgust and then put us to work. We received no food or drink through out the whole day. They gave us 50 lb. box of Dynamite to carry up a slick hill of mud it being the hottest day of heat I ever witnessed. The white man say if you fall going up that the mud hill "you mine as well start eating that mud for dinner."
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