Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-27
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
TUNCHAL. Madeira. Feb, 2S Six
~ thousand miles from salt Lake
our Pilgrim Band indulges m
something of a gasp as % triss
10 realize the fact! Gazing around US
upon the new and strange scenery,
people, costumes. climate and what
not which salute our eyes. we rub them
in wondernent and marvel whether We
are not upon another planet instead
of merely another hemisphere. Does
such a place as salt Lake really exist?
is there an Eagle Gate, a county build
ing. a Legislature, a federal buncn, a
prohibition contest. or are they merely
creatures Of the fancy?
Very far away indeed, they seem, on
this peaceful drowsy, sunlt day, as
We sit on the dock OF the giant ocean
liner the Cedric, and gaze upon ,ha
beauties of this Portuguese city
stretching back from the coast up 90
the bills. She Is located 700 miles from
the parent mainland IN the path OF HE
steamers plying from America TO tine
Mediterranean ports, but lying as
dreamily back i'm the seventeenth cen-
fury. as the most Isolated OF Portugal
towns. Here our steamer is pausing
ior "A few hours rest after "A steady
battle OF eight days with high seas.
contrary winds that ofton amounted
10 gales. and more or less exhausted
lot of passengers. Most welcome les ,hc
change. The waters are smooth Tor
the first time since we left New York
harbor, people who have never been
out Of their cabin since the day Ne
started. are gathered on deck. and the
little launches are plying back and
forth between tho Cedric and the shore.
for the steamer is too big 90 be- brought
close In. ana am the communication
with the town have TO be- carried on boy
boats. All the decks are I'm possession
OF dealers I'm fruits beads, laces hand
made hnery. WiCkerWare and bri a.
brac Of a thousand sorts. The passen-
gers who do not go ashore amuss
themselves an day with the antics OF
a swarm Of half naked youngsters who
paddle about in small boats, ana shout
up 90 the decks, Throw down 10 cents.
see me dive'' The dimes, six pence or
shilling pieces go over I'M showers am
day long. and the way the brown skim
ned youngsters dive after them and
emerge ln triumph with them is s1me-
thing astonishing tD behold. Once Iu "a
while. some diver more VeuturDspma
than his follows chambers mp the fldcs
OF the vessel and says ha win dive
from the top deck 6O feet or more. for
chap "a dollah The money given
him. he launches out into the air with-
out "a moments hesitation. head down
ward, strikes the water at "a graceful
angle and is up among hIs yelling
brethren again in trIco.
QUAINT OLD FUNCHAL.
A few hours passed Boz nuntoring
through the town of FunChU are fun
of the most curious sort 0f interest
AZ the waters brink you AFRO met by
the COX sleds which DO the carrying
business of the place. us they ala hun
dreds of years ago. They hold four
people. are drawn by two young steers
with one boy 90 head them and another
20 whip them up The roads are aIl
paved with cohhlc stones worn 90 "a
CLASSY smo0thuc-s. aud The sleds glide
over them BOO way not ut AN uncnm-
Portable to experience. M you have
the time to spare. you can ride tn one
of the mountain hotels-au are now
crowded with European tourIsts AMI
come back per tobOggun,' another sled
which ls conveyed hy two men who
tot alongside to see that BE- does mot
lun away with YOU as it might easily
do were d not held in leash.
sEMI-TROPlCAL FOLIAGE
The scenery Is OF tho most deughtu.
sort tropical and semi tropical on
the highest peaks there "a aa much
snow visible as there is ON the Wasatch
range in March or April. but 1000 or
1900 feet below, the palms, ferns and