The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-11

| ana 1--WE bells" and the meaning of
| slarpoard' and "larboard" and other
nautical terms By the way, we are
bound for the lands whence came those
tlme-honored words. The early navi-
gators, who crossed the western ocean
to hurt up America, said questa borda
when they meant this side" and buella
borda for that side" Abbreviated, the
words stand sta borda and la borda;
ana naturally the clumsy English
tongue corrupted them to the words in
present use. They sound so much alike
that frequent errors occurred some
times causing, serious accidents; there
fore the admiralty, some years ago.
substituted the word port" for lar
board. Land-lubbers on their first voy-
age may know which is which by re-
membering that "starboard" is the
rlSht hand side of the ship and its col
or Is green, while port" is the left and
its colur red.
In these days of rapid transit one APP
pioaches the opposite hemisphere re-
GREETING that the voyage is not longer.
To be rushed into new lands, without
giving the imaginat ton time to daily on
the borders of the unknown, is to rob
oneself of half the delights OF foreign
tour. Spain and portugal are one in
history, and in the habits and traditions
OF their people--almost one in language,
saving few extra his and o's in the
westward provinces. The very thought
Of sunny Spain, land of vineyards and
olive groves and fandangoes, of gui-
tars and gypses brigands senoritas
and caballeras, warns the heart like
draught from its famous vintages.
When Washington Irving made SINH
lar journey he wrote: I'VE set out with
a genuine disposition to be pleased.
With such disposition, what a coun-
try is Spain for the traveller, where the
most miserable inn is as full Of adven-
ture as an enchanted CASTLE and every
meal is in itself an achievement" In
similar frame of mind we hurried on
deck before sunrise Of misty morn
ing to watch the passage Of the bar at
the mouth of the Rio Douro The great
river, navigable for smaller craft more
than a hundred miles above, stretches
away across Portugal to the border of
France. The Pyrenees frown upon its
upper waters, and somewhere along its
banks is the Valladold of song and sto-
ry, and Braganza, celebrated in opera
bouffe. o Porto (Portugese for THE
Porto lies three miles up the Douro,
and entrance to it's so-called harbor Is
between the Scylla and Charybdes Of
dangerous rocks rocks and shifting
sands, which hinder incoming vessels |
for hours. Were it on our side of the |
world it would have been cleared out |
long ago. for the famous old midland |
city, the Manchester of |
The Iberian Peninsula, has for centuries /
njoyed an enormous commerce. What |
ever may be the feelings Of merchant |
men, the delay is welcome to the tour
st, who could occupy days as we'll as
1ours in locating points of interest"
rom the tall white lighthouse on the
lip of the bar to the picturesque castle
)keyond, in the village Of Sac Josa da
Foz, and around the circuit of suburban
Campanha, Parahos Lordilla,
0 the city that was old in the middle
ICES. High walls enclose the latter,
lanked with towers and protected by a
ort; while nearer to eaward you may
trace remains of the ancient
of the Goths and Romans
'his Is the site of Portus Gale, you re-
member. afterwards Porto Gale, from
which the kingdom derived its name.
Early as $40 A. d. it had a fourishing
rade, when Leovogild, the Visigoth,
anne down and took possession. Two
enturies later the Moors, under Abdul
Iassan, conquered the region. Then 7
he Christians overthrow the Moors, and
he Moors the Christians, alternately,
l a nearly even struggle for suprema-
y which lasted, off and on, four hun
red years; until 1892, when Don Alton
} FREDERICK finally brought the PENN
lila under Catholic dominion. From
truggling with hazy recollections Of
istory, your mind comes joyfully back
} the yet picturesque life of the pres
nt Queer vessels of all descriptions
rowd Oporto bay, mostly Portuguese
aft laden with oil wine, garlic and
Mons, going to carry those prime ne
essaries of life to their countrymen in
RAIL, Africa, Cuba and other distant
egions. The Portuguese are born navi-
ators, and hundreds of vessels, built in I
lie Douro shipyards, are sent by Oporto I
Yners to all parts of the world. A ,
BOD many English ships are here after
trgoes of wine and cattle, As every
1dy knows, the Oporto wine trade is 7
ostly in English hands. Their ware ,
buses line the southern bank of the
yer half a mile or more, and one firm
one Is said to export an average of six I
illion liters per annum of the famous {
d port" Britain also gets her best +
ef from Portugal, which is one of the
W countries never yet visited by the
tile plague. I learn with astonish- l
ent that the finest grass-fed beef in n
e world comes-not from Texas, as we
the United States have been taught, >,
II from the pampas of Argentina or h
e meadows Of Uruguay, where the y
eat Iiebeg extract factories are doing 8
enormous business-but from the =
LEY of the Douro, in Entire Mimic .
ovince, few miles above Oporto! =,
Queerer yet to foreign eyes are the y
,rtugese river craft swarming the bay y
hundreds of clumsy boats with single
asts, square-built hulls and bellying !,
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