. 6 et 1 à l'étranger. ithropes, lui permettant de planer avec une grande vitesse. La route esttrès tordu et dans le ride nous avons pris cela ressemblait parfois comme ifwe étaient à être déçus, contre les murs, mais un habile manipu-lation des rênes nous a envoyé en toute sécurité autour de l'bendsand menaçant nous avons atterri droit  =d ide care au pied du mont-ain, le conducteur de la transpiration et en soufflant de l'exécuter. 9minutes ; la course deux shillings et s'il vous plaît, 20 reis pour adrink. Dans l'énumération de l'industri-^s de l'île, j'ai une mention neglectedto plus important et lucratif-que de beg-ging. Chaque enfant ther

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. Six and one abroad. ithropes, permitting it to glide with great speed. The road isvery crooked and in the ride we took it looked at times as ifwe were to be dashed against the walls, but a dexterous manipu-lation of the reins sent us safely around the threatening bendsand we landed right =ide up with care at the foot of the mount-ain, the driver sweating and blowing from the run. Time 9minutes; fare two shillings and if you please, 20 reis for adrink. In enumerating the industri-^s of the island, I have neglectedto mention a most important and lucrative one—that of beg-ging. Every child there is a per-^istent Nemesis at your heels.Penny, please; me so poor; need-a bread so bad. It is theonly English they know and they know that sentence in French, German and Portuguese. Donate a penny to one of them andyour munificence is heralded to the uttcn-most limits of the townand wherfner you go thereafter they swarm about you like aplague of Egyptian flies. In the midst of the contemplation 16 Six and One Abroad. First Sight of Laud 17 of some sublime scene in which the soul rises into the empyrean, you are suddenly conscious of a collapse to sordid earth by theplea of a little pie-faced mendicant: Penny, please; me sopoor. Drivers beg, guides beg for tips and booze, women as-sume pathetic tones and pose? and beg; all classes beg, not be-cause they are needy, for they need nothing except to be bornagain somewhere else and graded up, but because its theirbusiness and it pays. Three small streams, originating in* the jmountain snows, run through the city in channels twenty feet deep by fortyfeet wide, the walls of which are of solid masonry. The womendo the town washing in the beds of these channels and whenthey are at work in long irregular lines, with their brown prog-eny half-dressed, half exposed, on the rocks and their primi-tive linen outspread on branches and shrubs, the scene is anovel and interesting one. The milk supply of Funchal is derived from goats whichare driv

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