The islands belong to Portugal, and everything in
Fayal has Portuguese characteristics about it.
And while he discussed within his own mind what sort of shape or similitude it were well to bestow upon this excellent piece of timber, there came into Drowne's workshop a certain Captain Hunnewell, owner and commander of the good brig called the Cynosure, which had just returned from her first voyage to Fayal.
One fine morning, just before the departure of the Cynosure on her second voyage to Fayal, the commander of that gallant vessel was seen to issue from his residence in Hanover Street.
There was a rumor in Boston, about this period, that a young Portuguese lady of rank, on some occasion of political or domestic disquietude, had fled from her home in Fayal and put herself under the protection of Captain Hunnewell, on board of whose vessel, and at whose residence, she was sheltered until a change of affairs.
So we go across the water, and think to sell to some
Fayal man.
Malo; but being forced into Lisbon by bad weather, the ship received some damage by running aground in the mouth of the river Tagus, and was obliged to unload her cargo there; but finding a Portuguese ship there bound for the Madeiras, and ready to sail, and supposing he should meet with a ship there bound to Martinico, he went on board, in order to sail to the Madeiras; but the master of the Portuguese ship being but an indifferent mariner, had been out of his reckoning, and they drove to
Fayal; where, however, he happened to find a very good market for his cargo, which was corn, and therefore resolved not to go to the Madeiras, but to load salt at the Isle of May, and to go away to Newfoundland.
immigration visas to Azoreans who suffered damage from volcanic eruptions just off the coast of
Fayal Island during 1957-58.
Receiving the false report that Spencer is dead, Bess, to outfit a ship, uses the money Spencer entrusted her prior to his departure, dresses as a man, finds a crew, and sets sail to
Fayal, a far-off island in the Azores where she believes her lover has died.
A group of 161 Azorean migrant laborers found their way from
Fayal to Trinidad in July of that year.