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INDEX. 



Criminals, 82. 



Crops, rotation of, 100. 



Crusado, 28. 



Curral das Freiras, 11, 20. 



short road to the, 12. 



Little, 16. 



Daguerreotype, 6. 

 Dampness, 47. 

 Dearths, 106. 

 Deluges, 44. 

 Dollars, 28. 

 Donatorios, 66, 67. 

 Dragon tree, 112. 

 Dress of the poor, 90. 



Ecclesiastical affairs, 68. 



Courts, 69. 



Education, places of, 72. 



Elections, 89. 



Emigration, 52, 54, 55. 



Entroza Pass, 20. 



Estreito, 10. 



Exports and Imports, tables of, 106. 



Faial, 24, 25. 



vista of, 22. 



Fire on the south of Madeira, 93, 94, 



111. 

 Fishes, 124. 

 Flax, 102. 

 Flowers, 115. 

 Folhado, 112. 

 Forests, 112. 

 Forja de Ferreiro, 16. 

 Fruits and vegetables, 114. 

 Funchal, why so called, 3. 



■— passion for building in, 5. 



roads about, 9. 



mean annual temperature of, 



37. 



falls in, 42. 



annual quantity of rain that 



Funchal, constituted a city, 66. 

 Diocese of, 70. 



Geology, 127. 



Girao, expedition to, 13, 16. 



Gonqalo, Fort, 16. 



Gorgulho, 16. 



Government, original, 66. 



Governor, Civil, 79. 



Governors, appointment of, 65. 



Hammocks, 7. 

 Harmattan, 45, 46. 

 Henry, Prince, 61, 93. 

 Horses, very sure-footed, 9. 



price of, 30. 



hire of, 30. 



food of, 31. 



Hospital, 74. 



Lazar, 76. 



Husbandry, instruments of, 104. 



Inheritance, laws of, 82. 



Insects, 125. 



Invasion by French privateers, 66. 



Jardim, 10, 13, 17. 

 Jorge, S a p, 21. 

 Judges, 79. 

 Jury, 81. 



Labouring classes, 107. 

 Lamuceiras, 23. 

 Levadas, 105. 

 L'Este, nature of, 45. 



cause of, 46. 



Libramento, church of the, 11. 



Library, English, 34. 



Lodgings, 26. 



Longevity, 50. 



Lourenqo, S J .°, 15, 22, 23, 24. 



Luminosity of the ocean, 12G. 



Lyceum, 73. 



