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Updated: May 22, 2025
However, one of my companions and I, with a guide, climbed to the very top of the Pico, and such a view as that of mountain, valley, and blue laughing ocean, I had never before beheld. On one side was the Pico Huivo, the embattled Torrinhas, the rugged Sidrao and Arnero; and on the other, the long unbroken ridge of Paul with the Terra d'Agoa, clothed in an evergreen mantle of forest far below it.
Peter's Day. June 29 is kept even at Funchal by water-excursions; it is homage enough to pay a penny and to go round the ships. We anchored and screamed abominably off Santa Cruz, the capital of its 'comarca. The townlet lies on the left of a large ravine, whose upper bed contains the Madre d'Agoa, or water-reservoir.
The natives of the Amazons country universally believe in the existence of a monster water-serpent, said to be many score fathoms in length and which appears successively in different parts of the river. They call it the Mai d'agoa the mother, or spirit, of the water.
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