Excerpt from The Land of the Wine, Vol. 1: Being an Account of the Madeira Islands at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century and From a New Point of View; With Thirty-Eight Full-Page Illustrations; Maps of Funchal and of the Island of Madeira, Showing the Mountains and Their Heights; And a Section In styling the natives of these islands Madei rans the author has furthermore departed from the custom of all previous writers on the subject, who have called them Portuguese, an appellation which the natives themselves resent. For this divergence from the usual course the following reason is offered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.