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bury her in, calling it by the name of Jesus, and 

 caused his name and hers to be written or graven 

 upon the stone of her tombe, and the occasion of 

 their arrivall there. And afterwards he ordcined 

 a boat made of one tree (for there be trees of a 

 great compasse about) and went to sea in it, 

 with those men that he had, and were left behinde 

 with him, and came upon the coast of Afrike, 

 without saile or oare. And the Moores which 

 saw it tooke it to be a marvellous thing, and pre- 

 sented him unto the king of that countrey for a 

 woonder, and that king also sent him and his 

 companions for a miracle unto the king of Castile." 



When first discovered, the Madeira Islands were 

 covered with dense forests, and a fire set alight 

 at Madeira is said to have lasted for seven years. 



In my equipment was a " Reflex " quarter- 

 plate camera, built years ago to my design, for 

 use with tclephotograph lenses, which for the 

 moment were a 25-inch Grandac and a 13-inch 

 Telecentric. Both to test the camera and for the 

 excellent sport they afforded, I obtained permission 

 from Mr. Hinton and Captain Cossart to hunt 

 wild goats in the Dcsertas, islands near Madeira, 

 of which they arc the thirteenth owners or lords. 



The first lord of the Descrtas was Zarco, who 

 discovered them in 1428, and his family held 

 these islands in fief to the Portuguese Crown for 

 nearly five hundred years. They then passed to 

 a Madeira family, and finally were purchased 

 by Hinton's and Cossart's fathers, some forty 

 years ago, for the sport they afforded and any 



