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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 336 k* COMPLEXIONHABITS. CHAPTER HI. L ComplexionHabits, and c. Of The NativesWomenMarriages PEASANTRY COTTAGES ASSES, 8lC. BEGGARS. The natives of the Azores have generally a dark, sallow complexion, which is most conspicuous among the peasantry. They are Mrell made and athletic, and their full, dark eyes have often great brilliancy. Their hair is abundant and - . black, their cheek bones are prominent; the nose inclines to aquiline, and the face is rather oval. The common people are active, and undergo much bodily fatigue, often to a very advanced age, and for a trifling compensation. The best mechanics obtain but from thirty to fifty cents per day, labourers rarely more than ten; and house servants from twelve to twenty dollars per year. ' The labouring and poorer classes have generally a cheerful countenance, but are easily provoked to anger by the most trivial causes, and are exceeding- . *.; -. -, *-.. - -.;*-. - - - HABITS DRESS. 37 ly vindictive. Many of them expend a considerable part of their earnings at the licensed shops, where an inferior wine, made on the island, is sold at from four to eight textit{vintems* per bottle. They also di ink a poor kind of rum called textit{ cachaa made in Fayal and Brazil. The shops where . . these liquors are sold, are distinguished by a green bush placed over the entrance. Women stand at the doors, cooking salted fish and a particular kind of sausages, called linguic_as, which are made hot with red pepper, and given to the customers, for the express purpose of inducing thirst. They seldom drink less than a bottle of wine, and commonly more than two, at a time. In all seasons of the year the men wrap themselves in large cloth cloaks, one cower of which ie usually thrown over the left shoulder. With the exception ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443264488
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1443264482
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 108


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