Basic 2003 Subtitle
Basic 2003 Subtitle
1 00:01:16,543 –> 00:01:19,979 The French tried to build a canal here before the Americans. 2 00:01:20,146 –> 00:01:22,671 At the height of their effort, 500 workers… 3 00:01:22,849 –> 00:01:26,410 … were dying every week from malaria and yellow fever. 4 00:01:26,953 –> 00:01:30,389 They couldn’t come up with cemetery space fast enough… 5 00:01:30,557 –> 00:01:34,653 … not to mention the morale problem all those crosses would have made. 6 00:01:34,828 –> 00:01:38,093 So they bought shiploads of vinegar in Cuba… 7 00:01:38,264 –> 00:01:41,859 … and in each barrel, they sealed one corpse. 8 00:01:42,035 –> 00:01:45,937 And then they sold them as medical cadavers all over Europe. 9 00:01:46,106 –> 00:01:49,837 And for a while, that was their principal source of profit. 10 00:01:50,009 –> 00:01:55,470 You see, this place has always had a special way of dealing…
Basic 2003 Subtitle
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