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at 8 p.m. and we waited for daylight, when we 

 anchored in Santa Cruz Roads at about 11 a.m. 



TenerifFe, from the sea, looks barren and rugged 

 after INIadeira, the sides of the mountains being 

 bare of vegetation and arid, but I knew from ex- 

 perience that there are " charms " in the land of 

 brunettes and mantillas that compensate for many 

 deficiencies. We partook of Mr. Richardson's 

 good cheer in the English hotel opposite the 

 Gardens of the Almeda, visited the church, where, 

 in a glass case, is some scarlet bunting, which the 

 inhabitants affirm is the union-jack of the " Fox " 

 cutter that floated ashore when the place ^vas 

 attacked by Nelson, and bought some most excel- 

 lent Havanna cigars from Signer Bulloso in the 

 Calle Castello very cheap (six dollars for a box of 

 two hundred and fifty) and a couple of hundred 

 packets of cigarettes. I also added to the live-stock 

 on board by investing in some splendid game cocks 

 and a very pretty Lima dog. I forgot to say that 

 I had brought a splendid English setter with me, 

 but the hot climate did not agree with him ; he 

 caught the craw-craw (a kind of mange) from the 



