Show ih the people of madeira they are as harmless as their country the stranger meets with no snakes and need not fear mosquitoes neither has lie ike to take any precaution against being molested in the most out of the way ay parts everywhere civility politeness and pleasant faces will greet him the prices asked are grotesque often five times what will finally be accepted some find the absence of fixed prices abroad a great nuisance but the bargaining in maderia Is so good humored and can be made so amusing that the change of custom in this respect is rather refreshing there is one reason that may account or the comparatively few visitors to the island there are neither golf links nor cycling roads ml all Ma madeira detra can do is to provide a very limit limited Fd cricket ground and five miles of fairly level road most blost of the ways near the city are paved with stones and are trying to the feet but in the country this paying paving ceases good words |