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inks lying oi? ‘the, eastermost point
. Of Madeira; the eastermost of these;
called the Pyramid,‘ forms the exact
V b“ Singular appearance of a vessel
under sail- . -v c ‘
cc. 16. ‘ Came‘ tolanehor reii‘
VF‘-"‘Cl1.all.' lln approaching Funchall.
mm the sea,’ the surrounding country
. . apP8ars .preLtiIy variegated with a
E"‘?‘“ mmjbcr ofconntry seats, which,
elng white-washed, form a pleasing.
<c0ntrast with the green" foliage of
'3 Vineyards, and may be seen -at "a
great -distance from the island. -: The‘
.t?“"1 -which. is I called Funchall, is
situated on- the south -side of the
“land: and lies in the direction of east
.-"nil West along the.heach,‘on"which
- ."l‘F1‘ei8-alxvays a great surf when the ;
.w"ld blows onthe shore. -, The land-
.",‘$'Place for the boats is on -the west
3‘ 9: where the force-of the surf is
:b""k9!1 by the rocks. .At this place;
v “ands the Loo: rock, which is un-,
=c9“”e.‘Ft8d yvith the shore, and exhi-j
It-3 a curious appearance ;.- there are
, 8 ew guns upon it, but, upon‘ the’
Whole, the town appears to bevery.
:: efenceless. The streets are exceed-
A ""g'Yni1rroyv and dirty,,and fesvwell-
' "5-‘lsed people are to be seen. ' We
4 -. Olmd every article dear here; they
-. ‘V 115; to other placesfor supplies of
- ‘necessaries, ‘as the-
. wholly taken up in the cultivationof
? . the Fine"; even at their taverns they
- charged half a dollar abottle for very
ground is almost
. Indifferent Ma‘deira.v. . V .
- CC-417. It came on to blow3
' "‘-"7 fresh from the southwartl-,‘ and
1 an the vessels in the bay cut their
Cables and put to sea.-&-On tl1e'18th,-
- We kept under easy sail to leeward of
.theDesertas.- “' "- ‘ ‘ ‘ '
. ‘ Dec. 25; I. This day, usually decli-
‘ +. ‘Cater! to religious exercise,-but more
"(P t0j0l1ity and‘ good living, returned
. . t0 113 under very inauspicious circnm-.'
': fltances ; for on the night of the 24:11,
- i. It came on to'blow very hard from
= the ‘N. W. and increased to a gale
, Wlthavery heavy swell. - The return i
.1-
,p..
fl
ii I, -ron.nscnunnit,'J'181I.,.o,- -, ‘ it . $9.7," I
of. a day like Christmas 'natnrally' .-
turnedour thoughts to thoserfriendn
who usually assemble at home at that
season ; -and-We couldnot help form-
ing a painful contrast betwixt their--p
situation-(and our ‘ow'n.1'['How dif- -
ferent are the still and tranquil plea- A
sures of diimeitic life’ from ‘the rest-
less and uncertain :condition of alife
atsea I ,1 However,‘I question if many ,
houses exhibitedion this occasion a
scene “of greater’ festivity. than I our ‘
ships?‘ ’No’man, perhaps, can enjoy '
pleasure "who has"n.ot‘ experienc
pain, -for -our happiness is merely ‘-
comparative. Let the reader imagine -.
to himself the grotesque appearance
of our naval -dinner-party. ‘After
the dishes had escaped tbedangers
of the passage from the galley, oi‘
kitchen, to the mess’-room,it required
still no small exertion. to ‘keep them .
on the ‘ta'bIe.‘ '-Iii vain did every one
fix" hiinselfinthis chair, and cling with ‘ '
-his "legs round the feetjof the table A; ‘I
-nothing rema'in'ed,an ‘instantrinh the -
same ‘place; fowls, potatoes,
"and forks, "plates and "glasses, were
mingleclin ‘most-unseemly confusion .
by. the violent rolling and ‘pitching
motion of the ship ; even the venera.
'ble goose deserted the platter on
which it hadbeen -placed, and flew .-
for safety to the lap of ‘one of the
guests. ' At lasta heavy sea strikes ':
the ship under the quarter, and our,
experienced feelings yvarn us to pre- ’
- pare for a heavy lurch. Every one 9'7
seiies whatever is before him ; one
holds up his glass, another secures
a decanter, a third protects a tureen
of soup, while all grasp the "table
firmly, which, unable to hear such ; I
weight,'gives my itself, and witliit,
all are'precipitat'ed; plates, dishes,-‘j’
fowls, geese, men, ‘forks, glasses fly = '
about in alldirections.‘ It was found .- A
necessary at last to spread iour‘ cloth
'on'the deck’; and there, likeso many .
tailors on‘ a sho‘-board, eat our dinner:
as well as we could. Evenhere we
frequently ‘fetched way in": heavy '
‘ 1 A roll