Furnas in Winter.-Ride to the Furnas.-Volcanic Val- Climate.-Listlessness.-Antonio Bicho and Thomazia. Villa Franca.- Baths.- Cheap living.-Overwhelming of Villa Franca.-Discovery of the Azores by the Portu- guese.-Origin of the name Azores.-Post-office pecula- tion.-Orange Gardens. —Nun. — Vegetation. Hair- Island of Fayal.-Horta.-Custom-house. Swine.- Pico Peasants.-Boarding-house.College of Jesuits.- ST. MICHAEL'S ASS LADEN WITH HEATH AND FIREWOOD. A WINTER IN THE AZORES. CHAPTER I. Now ship boring the moon with her main-mast; and anon swallowed with yest and froth, as you'd thrust a cork into a hogshead,—to see how the sea flap-dragoned it. WINTER'S TALE. I have great comfort in this fellow; methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him. TEMPEST. Qui mare fluctisonum sulcat, curvisque carinis BUCHANAN. Voyage.-Meals.-Gales.-Captain.-Sailors.-Land. NOVEMBER 16.-WE were towed out of Cowes' harbour in the teeth of a sharp north-easterly breeze, lay to in the roads for our captain and pilot, and at four o'clock in the afternoon of last Monday, the 12th, were foaming and frothing along towards the Needles at the exhilarating VOL. I. B |