1880 Facts about Port and Madeira by Henry Vizetelly

Tlie Vineyards of Sao Martinho, Cama de Lohos, Sc. 167

Leneatli us a certain fall of three or four hundred feet. At length we reach the high ground,and women gaze at our party with open eyesfrom the doors of their thatched cottages, built close against the steeper slopes and literally buried under luxu riant vines. Our hearers continue as lively as ever; and one of them, proud of an opportunity of airing his Enghsh, after

inquiring the way of some passing peasant, amazes him and convulses his comrades with laughter by shouting,"All right; thank you, sir, very much!" Whilst winding round on our way to the summit of Cabo Oirao,in other words Cape Turn-again^ we obtain a view ofthe district known as the Quinta Orande,the vines of which,but slightly affected by the phylloxera, promised