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Even when the Rothschild banking house demanded a high commission for funding the project, he raised the money himself. He sold shares publicly, generating million francs from 25, small investors. In , when talk in Paris turned to a canal in the Americas, the challenge was too tempting for de Lesseps to pass up. But he believed such a canal was possible in Panama, without the need for locks.
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Back in France he set up a private newspaper to promote the canal, went on a lecture tour, and bribed influential newspapers and politicians for coverage of his scheme. One hundred thousand people clambered for shares. Finance was now secured by public means, and he pronounced that in just seven years the canal would be complete. The French attempt in Panama was a debacle.
While one team began dredging Panama Bay on the Pacific side of the isthmus, a second began work on the Atlantic side in Limon Bay. A third team began in the mountains, the Cordilleras, excavating what would be known, notoriously, as the Culebra Cut main image.
This river crossed the proposed canal route several times and a solution to the flooding would have to be found.
The rain made conditions intolerable for the workers. It swamped construction and washed spoil back into the Culebra Cut. The men had to cope with dense jungle, venomous snakes, spiders and big cats. They were forced to live in filthy conditions, and almost every type of tropical disease attacked them: typhoid, cholera, smallpox, malaria, dysentery and yellow fever.
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