QotD: I had on a Panama hat, soaked with rain and spotted with mud, a check shirt, white pantaloons, yellow up to the knees with mud ...

FYI, I lacked the white pantaloons

I had on a Panama hat, soaked with rain and spotted with mud, a check shirt, white pantaloons, yellow up to the knees with mud ... - John Lloyd Stephens. Incidents of Travel in Central-America, Chiapas and Yucatan. Illustrated by Numerous Engravings. London (1841), Volume I, p.127

From Wikipedia:

John Lloyd Stephens (November 28, 1805 – October 13, 1852) was an American explorer, writer, and diplomat. Stephens was a pivotal figure in the rediscovery of Maya civilization throughout Middle America and in the planning of the Panama railroad. In 1839, President Martin Van Buren commissioned Stephens as Special Ambassador to Central America. While there, the government of the Federal Republic of Central America fell apart in civil war. His Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán gives a vivid description of some of those events which Stephens witnessed.

A few years earlier, he had traveled to the Middle East, publishing Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land (1837), one of the best (and earliest) American account of the region (and where I'd first heard of him when writing my book on Egyptian travel accounts, Nile Notes of a Howadji (1992).

"There is no construction in modern Panama to-day that may be compared to the grand dignity of that sentinel tower." G Miller on Panama Viejo

"Most conspicuous stands the old church tower, splendid and defiant amid the wreckage about its feet. Straight and strong it lifts its lofty head above the treetops, and, viewed from any angle, is a majestic figure. There is no construction in modern Panama to-day that may be compared to the grand dignity of that sentinel tower. Like some old prophet, amid the ruins of a wayward people, the tower raises its head and stands in mute but noble witness to the reality of the things that endure. For the tower was honestly built, and therefore stands. Against its solid walls, builded from their rock foundation straight upward, the ravages of time have made but little impress."
- Prowling about Panama by George A. Miller (New York, 1919)