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"Thank you: many thanks," replied the colonel, with an expression of disappointment. "Then I had better prepare the letter?" "Carta por senhor commandante," interrupted a Portuguese, presenting a letter to the colonel; "O senhor embaixo; queir risposta." The colonel opened the letter, which contained Mr Sullivan's challenge, pistols to-morrow morn, at daylight one mile on the road to Machico.
Unless you write to warn the owners that you are coming, the first will be a 'banyan-day, the second comfortable enough. We then pass the Ponta da Queimada, whose layers of basalt are deeply caverned, and we open the Bay of Machico. The site, a broad, green and riant valley, with a high background, is softer and gayer than that of Funchal.
But causes of appellation are remitted to the citie of Lisbone in Portugall to the kings superior iudges there. This Iland hath another towne called Machico, which hath likewise a good road for ships, which towne and road were so called after the name of Macham the Englishman, who first discouered the same. There are also sixteene sugar houses called Ingenios, which make excellent good sugar.
"Thank you, many thanks," replied the colonel, with an expression of disappointment. "Then I had better prepare the letter?" "Carta por senhor commandante," interrupted a Portuguese, presenting a letter to the colonel; "O senhor embaixo; queir risposta." The colonel opened the letter, which contained Mr Sullivan's challenge, pistols tomorrow morn, at daylight one mile on the road to Machico.
About this time, too, the island of Madeira is said to have been discovered by an Englishman named Macham; who, sailing from England into Spain with a lady whom he loved, was driven out of his course by a tempest, and arrived in a harbour of that island, now called Machico, after his name.
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