thousands left their skeletons with the red brother, and other thousands left theirs on the isthmus of panama or on the cruel desert. many married men went who had been looking a long time for some good place to go to. leaving their wives with ill-concealed relief, they started away through a country filled with death, to reach a country they knew not of. some died en route, others were hanged, and still others became the heads of new families. some came back and carried water for their wives to wash clothing for their neighbors.