dependencies represented on the Isthmus. My own cards showed a few
less. Most conspicuous absences, besides American negroes, were
natives of Honduras, of four countries of South America, of most
of Africa, and of entire Australia. That this was largely due to
chance was shown by the fact that my fellow-enumerators found
persons from all these countries.

I had enrolled persons born in the following places: All the
United States except three or four states in the far northwest;
Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,
Panama, Canal Zone, Colombia, Venezuela, British Guiana
(Demarara), French and Dutch Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and
Chile, Cuba, Hayti and Santo Domingo, Jamaica, Barbados, St.
Vincent, Trinidad, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Dominica, Nevis,
Nassau, Eleuthera and Inagua, Martinique, Guadalupe, Saint Thomas
(Danish West Indies), Curacao and Tobago, England, Ireland,
Scotland, Holland, Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
Russia, France, Spain, Andorra, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany,
Italy, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Servia, Turkey, Canary Islands,
Syria, Palestine, Arabia, India (from Tuticorin to Lahore), China,
Japan, Egypt, Sierra Leone, South Africa and--the High Seas.

"Where you born, boy?" I had run across a wrinkled old negro who
had worked more than thirty years for the P.R.R.

"'Deed ah don' know, boss,"

"Oh, come! Don't know where you were born?" "Fo' Gawd, boss, ah's
tellin' yo de truff. Ah don know, 'cause ah born to sea."