... CHAPTER XXVI. NOBLESSE OBLIGE. The voyagers did not linger in the Caribbean Sea, beautiful although it was. .Those deep transparent waters, with the fertile and mountainous islands, were as fraught with danger as they were delicious to look upon. Those ...

... that the inevitable canal across the isthmus of Panama, or thereabouts, will change the strategic map of the world. The Caribbean Sea will be thronged with the fleets and navies of ail nations, and the Union must go forth to shape her destiny there by ...