The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-30
THE DARIEN EXPEDITION.
The Project n FaiIure-Doings of the Survey
ors-Their Privations, and other Details.

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fore announced, the work begun in MAY and con-
cluded duriug the present month has been a failure
for reasons the chief of which is that the obstacles
encountered have proved to be of such magnitude
that it would require a centurys WORK to sur
mount them, and would involve an expenditure
payment OF the national debt for years - coI.Ia5
LeuteI ant Hubbard, of the Nipsc, informed our
reporter that during all their explorations and sur
yeys they encountered a series OF rivers aud noun
tains that were not supposed tn have been in exist
ence, from the reports and charts that had been
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THE INDIANS,
| unlike those who roam our plains, are small in
stature and exceedingly treacherous. 1t was only
| by the utmost eXertions that sufficient number
were brought over to interpret and act as guides
There between 40 900 and So 900 on the Isthmus
divided up into three tribes the two most powerful
| OF which the Sassardi and IMorti. The latter
| have their habitation the isles and shoals ada
cent to the coast where they live on fish aud crabs
| while the Sassard the largest and most powerful
dwell in the dense uDgles, and subsst on the trO-
pica fruit and other products which they raise when
| not too lazy to work. During the whole time spent
| in the country, but one or two women were seen
| m,u ,,,n, op .r,o.,.
| me hfLohAiioNs'
| on account OF the celebrity that had been given
"Dr. Cullens route" which was supposed to have
been the most practicaole, the first expedition
started out on the road on the 25th day Of February
| under command OF Lieutenant L. Hubbard but after
many pTtvations and the immense quantities of rain
that deluged the country they were obliged to put
| back.
Two days afterwards, Captain Selfridge, accom-