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42_34 Madeira Islands, Jan, 14, '26 upper decks. We stopped at Funchal, the port, only from 9 to 5, daylight. The most distinctive sight in the streets is the sled drawn by a yoke of bullocks, a barefoot boy guiding them by strings in the horns, or running ahead and clearing the way, a barefoot man sitting on the front of the sled with a goad and belaboring the oxen, both man and boy shouting and gesticulating and occasionally urging the dull bullocks into a short gallop. The Madeira Islands lie near the Old World continents; nevertheless it took us two nights and a day and a half to reach Gibraltor. So that I have the impression the Madeira flora is sufficiently insular. |
42_35 Gibraltor, Jan 16, '26 At Gibraltor we visited the town with its narrow streets thronged with the peasant Spaniard and with little carriages (drawn by a single horse) for hire. THere were no taxies in our sense - though automobiles enough. The town is not especially interesting. It is filled with barracks for the soldiers and quarters for officers. It is called by Dr. Powers, the lecturer on the Adriatic, the world's greatest fortress - but to the casual stranger it did not look it. As to its fortifications they are mostly hidden, but its warehouses and shops are not as conspicuous as those of Mare Island. Gibraltor must be one if the dullest places in the world to live. There is a heavy and constant stream of travel |
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