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Missionary activity was erratic until the nineteenth century, when large numbers of English settlers, as well as slaves, ex-slaves, and mixed-race descendants of African and native peoples from British possessions in the West Indies began settling along the Atlantic coast of Central America. By the turn of the century, a number of chaplaincies dotted the Atlantic Coast from Honduras to Panama, overseen by the bishop of Honduras, whose see was established in 1883. In Panama, the American firm which responded to the California gold rush by building a railroad across the isthmus with the labour of thousands of West Indies workers built a church and paid for an American Episcopal priest to serve as its chaplain...he succumbed to yellow fever. The arrival of additional West Indian workers