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“...rough weather, leading in-
ievitably to reference to the concerts, the fancy balls,
land so on, which make the fortnight between England
land Barbados, and between Avonmouth and Jamaica,
land the shorter journeys between Canada and the
■United States and the West Indies pass so pleasantly
! for the traveller who takes Kingsley’s advice, and in
■respect of his fellow:passengers is
"To their faults a little blind ;
And to their virtues very kind.
I, Two days out the cold winds begin to lose their sting,
land on the third there is felt an appreciable change in
i the climate, which becomes sensibly milder, even if the
Iweather is stormy.
I After four days, the romantic group of islands known
las the Azores is passed. These Western Islands, as they
iare also called, belong to Portugal, from which they are
■distant 800 miles, and are supposed to be the site of the
: ancient Atlantis. They were first sighted in the fifteenth
(century by Van der Berg, of Bruges, and by 1457 the
whole of the islands...”
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