In Panama is an excerpt from the book The Voyage of The Aegre by Nicholas Grainger. Chapter 14, Across the Caribbean to Panama.
Nick and Julie, living aboard The Aegre, were awaiting their passage through the Panama Canal, when there was the curious case of the parrot that couldn’t swim.
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