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Excerpt from Narrative of a Voyage to Patagonia and Terra Del Fuégo: Through the Straits of Magellan, in H. M. S. Adventure and Beagle, in 1826 and 1827
After a fine voyage of eight days we made the Island of Madeira, a place not requiring much description at the present day; and well known, from the salubrity and genial tempera ture of its climate, to be much resorted to by the sickly and consumptive. If a Portuguese merchant has occasion to be absent from Ma deira for a short period of time, he hurries his loving and weeping wife to an institution, re markable for its dreary appearance and barred windows, where she is secreted and watched.
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