Show I 1 written for the flag ilour union I 1 island of madeira PT DY il MISS SS luby BRAD SHAwl I 1 I 1 1 J I 1 think the ladies of funchar funchal are very handsome band some they certainly perta lack the chirm charm afi beauty cultivated intellect but bilt wilh soft olive complexions completions complex ions dork dark eyes and very dark hair they are often very beautiful in stature they are rather below the ordinary european and american stan standard edard but they are ro round in person and oval in feature you rarely see see them fib oad in the streets but when not otherwise eno engaged amed within the 14 house they pass a large share C of their time ti we upon the pretty I 1 littly bailon balconies lea that adil add so m iteria lly to the bea beauty uty of the city houses tho the dress of 0 f those tho a e W who bo are properly entitled efi titled to the name of ladies esquite is quite european but the women from tb the interior of the island as well we 11 as the men have a wholesome scorn of dress I 1 tind and wear only just as much as decency requires r the national religion ligion ro of the twenty twee five thousand inhabitants of af the c ci phalis is of course catholic but freedom of rel religious 1910 i u s opinion is is tolerated and n I 1 I 1 the laws haws of the island say alio 0 o man shall be molested on account of his religion provided he rew res peets that of the state and does not offend against the public morals the city affords all allord ordinary nary comforts of the table and a residence here 1 at ordinary times is by no mearis means ex expensive pensie the native fruits are abundant che cheap ap and most delicious delici om especially I 1 the ie or orange which grows here I 1 think in greater berf perfection than I 1 have ever eaten in in the west indies there jare are also ale plenty uty of apples peache peaches i 9 pears as gs grapes 4 and nd pomegranates not forgetting 1 the banana b a ii a n a our ta table ble affords abundant t evidence that game was pot not wanting w on the island such as ducks w wild I 1 ld pigeons hares adre s and ja great variety of most delicious fish including aho he delicate little lintl sardine sai dine abl which ell we are accustomed to see packed in oilin oil in tin boxes from france they come regularly once a year in ID shoals to madeira remain a week or ap and then disappear 1 the command of the island is vested in a lilau lieutenant tenant governor whose power is almost unlimited although an appeal is al always hayg allowable from the decisions of the local courts to those of lisbon the crown revenues I 1 are principally derived from a aut duty Y ok of twenty per cent upon all 11 i imports exa except pt provisions grid and the tit tithes upon each pi pipe pe of win wine e exported the there abig is also a considerable revenue derived from the government I 1 monopoly nop of tobacco cards ds apa alq soan 94 t ibbe h e aggregate of which is more pian jiin sq 1 cietto to defray cefra y the i egense ep ense of theli the civil yi and military as well as ecclesiastical establishments sustained fa i ned by the home gove ramont the surplus which amounts 0 0 very handsome sum annually is remit remitted fed ao s to the private coffers of the crowal of portugal there J are some three hundred priests is and antins on the island an d th the e 1 fottner arme r enter openly into mercantile mereAn tile traffic and the latter iatter earn a very good income from the ture of artificial flowers of wax and feathers f eA which the euro europeans eans gladly purchase to bring away from th the e island as mementoes A small party of us made an excursion to Yi what hafis is termed the of aap ira 5 amid a in edthe the grand and astonishing scenery I 1 of the interior it ire requires bo no of the th imagination to believe that te this a spot was once the scene of a raging v volcano ai 0 everything goes to prove this fact JI here ere in in a deep valley or crater enclosed on all sides except to the seaward by a wall of magnificent precipices of moral more thaws than a thousand feet in height the summits and abid sides aides I 1 of which are broken bro keni into evry conceivable shape and beautifully beti fully slotted dotted and gomma gemmec d with foliage and flowers while far below shi shines I 1 lies I 1 one of the a farole fer tale I 1 spots an the face tf of the globe glob rich in ia every r V species of vegetation and ja et two thousand feet fee above 1 tse the level of f the sea A geobra 0 0 lka 0 iche dior or novelty ety oc 0 j tuini on and loveliness of 1 f aspect and I 1 here bire as aaen in 1 a all 1 parts af this charming island the tep temperature peiR Aure a fluctuates U 1 atu I 1 less jess chanin in any other known spot north of the equator being quiver universally mild and genial rendering fires quite useless except for culinary purposes indeed in the equa I 1 cimity of ita climate madeira is ia unequal j J I 1 I 1 led 1 A we vve visited visite 4 iu in a pleasure ire yat th ll boring oring island which form ft to j groate gro of which madeira is the there being I 1 four others porto s sato to ai I 1 p about forty five miles due e east J contA containing inin some two thousand inhabit inhabitants t and is a very thrifty little island lite alb the placA where columbus afterward the discoverer of a western world marria mamed lils hia wife a ue Hs was subsequently a frequent visitor to porto santo and madeira and we were shown a housein where he ie was said to have i resided farside d for considerable period of aimi time th the 6 other islands of at as the a little less than six six adi lotical leagues 8 to the these are uninhabited by human beings but are arb frea frequently visited VA by sportsmen men W who lid b ring bring away an abundance of hares with which 1 they supply abe th 0 frequenters of the fancha l market our oar portuguese ie steward got 6 I 1 ot us wf balfa halfa a dozen by means ot buc ducking k ogain gun and we ate at them ethem cooked in a sort of pot poun couri orthe on the passage tack hack I 1 on approaching th the island eisland on our oar return from the tae we ran up the coast to lo got get a bet better er view of its remarkable natural a appearance e the abrupt up I 1 V manner in which it rises rises out oui of the aa sea m may li be easily image imagined fiona the fact that soun goa nAjla ding close in in sh shore or give ivo a depth of fifty fathoms and ea even tooig the that cast 40 anchor in the roadstead of funchar funchal pov out thirty fife fath oms of cable for their anchors the cliffs conall on all sides aides are very lofti eagles rook bock I 1 antho on the north coast faor or in instance stance rises a black baek cubic shaped meigs of rook rock to t the h e ge height 1 ight kofl to tho the west of this gape pargo rises four thon thousand swid feet above the sea but the most cariou feature marked upon the coast was the punta st lorenzo to ilio the eastward a le ledge ae of rocks six miles in length by we orio lri in breadth though this is dotso not so capo cape pargo yet aret it is very singular for its ita 8 bold bola projection project imi into the sea its fantastically broken cliffs wid and grotesque shaped peaks 1 have bae I 1 I 1 I 1 spoken of a most unique mode of con coil I meyance T a nee adopted li here ro where no wheeled vehicle vai 1 e av we are wil th that hat of f the palanquin there i is s still another nt iier style if pesi pes sili ible more peculiar tealler the hammock from its resemble lesem blence nee to this species of nautical sleeping A ean canvass ca avasa vass sling it iii the form and style of a hammock is n ded by its two extremes from a at stout out P pole 1 e carried on the shoulders of 4 a douple couple of bf stout islanders and is the almost universal mode of transportation especially for those ab unable a to pea bear ob fatigue of bf riding the mules or IN little atle island horses boises it has 4 tho the recommendation men dation daVion of safet safety yand and easo ease cpr those who h are thus swung buethe but the pole bearers have a hard time of it especially it if their burthen happens to be of odthe the falstaff style though I 1 am never seasick sea aea sick on the ocean yet let I 1 waa was qu quite 1 atia sick iq in one of af these land hammocks and was glad enan enough to resume once more the sidesaddle idd dle I 1 I 1 tills this mode 6 of f conveyance I 1 trieb triei 0 o on the I 1 way to the ahu jhu chuich r ch of our lad lady Y of I 1 the mountain a famous structure so some me eighteen hundred feet leet above the city of funeral Fune hal and just back of it some two miles from the beach A portion of the ascent is so ia near the perpendicular as to be unpleasant if not dangerous 11 on horseback I 1 the road however aih which is fenced in a large portion of the wy way by stone irali is s lined with fragrant flo flower werm and av it requires but ut little exercise of maev to imagine self sel in a european Europe iiii boa boji copse 6 so 6 profuse and artistically ai ranged heliotropes helio tropes i roses 11 7 gera geraniums and an aa in n VArle Viar jety tv of 0 sweet and variegated representatives of the kingdom of flora 11 1 1 1 I 1 i the church itself hns has nothing remarkable about it save its position from this point we e enjo PJ oved an extensive and beautiful prospect hect FAe fial lobas like I 1 toy 0 y village yil lage as j it t I 1 liy Y f far a i b kneath I 1 us I 1 r I 1 I 1 I 1 |