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ble delay of one hour and a half, after a prelim- 
inary waiting of two hours, there was not a 
single look of annoyance or impatience, or the 
slightest indication, on any face, that this was 
viewed as a strange or extraordinary thing. 
We duly attended, not on this occasion only, 
but at all ecclesiastical festivals, grave or gay, 
—the only difficulty being to discover any per- 
son in town who had even approximate infor- 
mation as to when or where they were to occur. 
We saw many sights that are universal in 
Roman Catholic countries, and many that are 
peculiar to Fayal: we saw the “ Procession of 
the Empress,” when, for six successive Saturday 
evenings, young girls walked in order through 
the streets white robed and crowned ; saw the 
vessels in harbor decorated with dangling effi- 
gies of Judas, on the appointed day; saw the 
bands of men at Easter going about with flags 
and plates to beg money for the churches, and 
returning at night with feet suspiciously un- 
steady; saw the feet washing on Maundy- 
Thursday, of twelve old men, each having a 
square inch of the instep washed, wiped, and 
cautiously kissed by the Vicar-General, after 
which twelve lemons were solemnly distributed, 
each with a silver coin stuck into the peel; saw 
and felt the showers of water, beans, flour, 
oranges, eggs, from the balcony windows dur- 
