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Title: "With touch of elbow;" or, Death before dishonor; a thrilling narrative of adventure on land and sea
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Wells, James M. (James Monroe), b. 1838
Subjects: United States. Army. Michigan Cavalry Regiment, 8th (1862-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago, The J. C. Winston Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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is life, I took him up behind me and carriedhim beyond the point of danger. The natives are trained from early childhood to thisemployment. While making a journey from Ponta Del-gada to the Furnas (a distance of twenty-four miles),being constantly hurried along, I remonstrated with thedriver, insisting that I was in no haste, but wished ratherto proceed slowly, the better to enjoy the scenery. There-upon he modestly informed me he was anxious to getthrough and return to the Furnas that evening, in orderto meet an engagement with a young lady to accompanyhim to a chimerite or dance. As he expected to carry apassenger back with him, he would be compelled to makethe journey both ways—forty-eight miles travel—on foot,and then to dance all night. Young men who can travelthat distance in the twelve hours of daylight (receivingfifty cents for the labor) and then dance all night, evenwith their best girl, are scarce in these degenerate days. On reaching Ponta Delgada it is found the Sarah
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With Touch of Elbow. 339 has already sailed for Fayal, and I am compelled to awaitthe arrival of a steamer. The intervening time is em-ployed in visiting the private gardens located here, manyof which surpass in beauty anything of the kind in thiscountry, if not in the world. At every step taken throughthese enchanting grounds fresh surprises are presented.There are acacia trees imported from Africa, around andover which creepers, honeysuckle and trumpet vines reveland cling. Palm trees and poplars and hedges of oleanderladen with blossoms overreach the graveled walks. Amountain stream of limpid water running through a rockyglen, forming cascades and miniature lakes, is finally lostin a grotto or underground cavern green with moss andoverhanging ferns. But sojourning in the Azorean Archipelago, no matterfor how long a period, there is one object that is seldomlost sight of and which grows upon the beholder as it isviewed from a distance, till one feels impelled as by somemysterious po

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