... Mrs. Sherman, Lizzie, then less than a year old, and her nurse, Mary Lynch. Our passage down was uneventful, and, on the boats up the Nicaragua River, pretty much the same as before. On reaching Virgin Bay , i engaged a native with three mules to carry us across to the Pacific, and as usual the trip partook of the ludicrous--Mrs. Sherman mounted on a donkey about as large as a Newfoundland dog; Mary Lyn...