Islanders are always the kindest people in the world, and I met none anywhere kinder than the good hearts of this place.

The people of the Azores are not a very rich community.

The burden of taxes is heavy, with scant privileges in return, the air they breathe being about the only thing that is not taxed.

The mother-country does not even allow them a port of entry for a foreign mail service.

A packet passing never so close with mails for Horta must deliver them first in Lisbon, ostensibly to be fumigated, but really for the tariff from the packet.