Excerpt from Maid in Panama<br><br>White men could not do the work. That had been demonstrated by the failure of the French. The heat and humidity, added to the attacks of disease and vermin to which white workers in a steaming tropical jungle country are subjected, had already laid thousands of Frenchmen in their graves.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.