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Henry made a timely retreat; the professor showed fight, and came off second best, with his mantle torn. 20th. Coimbra to Mealhada, then to Luso, and walked to Busaco. Convent of Busaco. Scene of battle. Mr. Cruikshank met us at the station, and drove Henry in his dog-cart; Hopie and I, with our bags, went in the char-a-banc which had been procured from Aveiro.
Gaspar Fructuoso, and the islanders are still nicknamed 'prophetas. Foreigners, however, who have lately visited them, speak highly of their simple primitive ways. I boated to the Holy Port in 1862, when Messieurs Blandy's steamship Falcon was not in existence. And now as the Luso steamed along shore, no external change appeared.
From Madeira the Luso makes, once a month, the tour of the Azores, touching at each island a great convenience and returning in ten days. Early on Thursday, the 22nd, the lumpy, churning sea began to subside, and the invisible balm seduced all the sufferers to the quarter-deck. They were wild to sight Madeira as children to see the rising of the pantomime-curtain.
Then set in a brise carabinee, which lasted during our voyage of 525 miles, and the Luso, rolling like a moribund whale, proved so lively that most of the fourteen passengers took refuge in their berths. A few who resisted the sea-fiend's assaults found no cause of complaint: the captain and officers were exceedingly civil and obliging, and food and wines were good and not costly.
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