. Six and one abroad. f white and oc-casionally with broader splotches of white, which upon a nearerview were resolved into individual homes and little towns. Andrectangles of different shades of green, little geometric figures,so even and regular, lined the mountain sides. Some one ven-tured the opinion that they were vineyards, but they lookedmore like multi-colored stair steps. As we ran alongside this stranger of the sea for thirty milesa panorama of beauty was unrolled such as is rarely seen on 10 Six and One Abroad highways of water. I do not believe it possible for f ny sight tobe more
. Six and one abroad. f white and oc-casionally with broader splotches of white, which upon a nearerview were resolved into individual homes and little towns. Andrectangles of different shades of green, little geometric figures,so even and regular, lined the mountain sides. Some one ven-tured the opinion that they were vineyards, but they lookedmore like multi-colored stair steps. As we ran alongside this stranger of the sea for thirty milesa panorama of beauty was unrolled such as is rarely seen on 10 Six and One Abroad highways of water. I do not believe it possible for f ny sight tobe more nearly Edenic—mountains rising four thousand feetsheer from the waves that lazily lapped their feet; covered frombase to summit with foliage of every variety of restful green;riven with picturesque gorges whose depths were concealed un-der a riot of tangled vines; cascades leaping down every de-pression and dropping their substance in a splashing spray ofpearls at the edge of the sea. It was not long before we could. THE FIRST SIGHT OF LAND. see the baby vineyards as they lay like so many thousands ofcots, one above the other in methodical order, so little that onemight easily step over them, it seemed, and yet hangingso precariously against the mountains steep side, that shouldone of the terraces cave the least bit there would be danger ofannihilating the whole grape crop of Madeira. Immediately after dropping anchor the water was alive withbobbing skiffs and naked brown in them pleading withgestures and noisy cries for a chance to dive for coins. Not First Sifjht of Land 11 once, I think, did one of these boys fail, after following withcareful eyes the course of a falling coin, to leap on its trailinto the water with sprawling limbs and wide open eyes, and re-appear shortly with the trophy in his fingers upheld in tri-umph, tossing it ({uiekly thereafter in the bottom of the boat,wiping his eyes hurriedly and renewing his appeals for furthertrials. From the steamer, a
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