“we passed Costa Rica, and were near land. We had a most gorgeous sunset, and a full moon at night; besides, the water was all aglow with brilliant phosphorescence, which looked like great fiery serpents playing about the steamer” — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
“There is nothing at any of our beaches at all comparable with the tremendous surf we saw at San Jose. Huge waves, mountains high,… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
“In our ascent we were often among the clouds hovering about the mountain, and for a while would be enveloped in fog and mist,… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
“Under this spell we were really startled by being suddenly confronted by a priestly form. A second glance revealed, however, only a wax figure in priestly robes -- Ignatius, the patron saint of the church; but it was so lifelike that every one of us had started back at the first glance. (pg. 151, Antigua ruins, the Capuchin monks monastery,)” — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share
“we passed Costa Rica, and were near land. We had a most gorgeous sunset, and a full moon at night; besides, the water was… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
“We gave the woman for her trouble a generous fee, with which she was highly pleased, and proceeded to put it in the bed under her sleeping husband's head. We laughingly told her not to put it there as he might get it, and it was money she had earned herself. She appreciated the joke, though it was told mostly… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share
“The women seemed more industrious than the men, for they were housekeepers; and the noise of the Indian housewife patting her tortillas in preparation for breakfast was the only sound that ever broke the silence of our quiet morning rides. For what need have men to work in a land of perpetual summer, where fruits grow wild, and a small… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share
“only 10 million of the required 250 million cubic meters of earth had yet been removed. The undertaking is a vast one, far exceeding… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
“If kind words were said without meaning, simply to make us pleased with the speaker, the result was surely accomplished, and we felt more… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
“At ten o'clock we arrived in Aspinwall, or, as it is always called there, Colon, this being the real name of the place, given… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
“They were sitting on the ground with baskets of the red berries before them, and in their embroidered dresses, with streaming black hair, made… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
“It is an experience we would not part with for "the wealth of Ormus or of Ind." It is one we would not repeat… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
