. Eight journeys abroad. d along a highprecipice on top of which was the Casino, then we went tothe station and took the funicular R. R. up to the church onthe hill where there are hotels, and we lunched. The place ina way reminded me of Clovelly as the streets are as steep butit is far more beautiful. We had taken Cooks tickets and were to ride down insledges after lunch; they were flat things with cushioned 431 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD seats and a man on cacli side to hold it hack. Mrs. Potter,her daughter and myself came in one and were pretty wellfrightened, but one would quickly get used to
. Eight journeys abroad. d along a highprecipice on top of which was the Casino, then we went tothe station and took the funicular R. R. up to the church onthe hill where there are hotels, and we lunched. The place ina way reminded me of Clovelly as the streets are as steep butit is far more beautiful. We had taken Cooks tickets and were to ride down insledges after lunch; they were flat things with cushioned 431 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD seats and a man on cacli side to hold it hack. Mrs. Potter,her daughter and myself came in one and were pretty wellfrightened, but one would quickly get used to it. How Iwish I could adequately describe the wonderful color effects;all the houses were white plaster with heavy green slattedshutters to keep out the sun, surrounded by tropical gardensand high white walls. The corners were arranged as a sortof loggia, protected by trellises covered either with a gianttrumpet vine or masses of the Bougainvillea vine, such massesof color and w^hen a gate would be open in a high wall we. ■COASTING AT FUNCHAL could see glorious shady gardens, the ground covered withmyrtle and giant camelia trees and big rose trees in fullbloom. Another bush had a vivid scarlet flower shaped likehawthorn; bunches of unfamiliar flowers were on giant bushesand the ground was covered with pink and scarlet geraniumsand heliotrope. All that with the blue sea behind was a pity the people who cannot see it, and when I think whatyou have missed I could cry. The sledges brought us down to the Santa Clara Hotel inthe town and on as steep a street as the hotel in Clovelly,They met us with the information that not a room could be 432 MADEIRA, SPAIN AND ALGIERS had, but Mrs. Potter and I refused to go and finally theyconcluded to put us in the childrens room in the garden. A wharf or mole of masonry opens into the principalpromenade, which was of bare ground with a row of bigsycamore or plane trees. The only sign of winter was thatcertain trees had not their foliag
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