Madeira Island

He might look at bones and ashes and tell you that he saw golden corn.

at old rags and say from cast off clothes come bitter beer and early cauliflowers in fact he might go through the whole list and prove to you that so far from it all being rubbish none of it is rubbish when it gets into its right place and that every single item has a more or less wonderful future before it for where man's ingenuity fails nature comes to the rescue and she is intolerant of all waste then again if archaeologically inclined he might look at the dust and think of the ancient dust heaps discovered or disinterred in various parts of the world which tell in such plain language of the habits and manner of life of races long since passed away from the earth and he might speculate upon the possibility of one of these modern dust heaps being buried and preserved to become an interesting historical record telling future generations what the ancient englishman lived upon what fruits and vegetables he cultivated and what he imported what fabrics he wore what perfection he had attained in the arts of pottery and of glass and paper making what an extensive trade he must have had with all parts of the world and many other things besides too numerous to mention to the dustman everything which finds its way into his cart whether it be ashes old shoes or an occasional silver spoon all comes under the head of dust but leaving these for the present we will limit our inquiries to the fine powdery matter commonly called dust which is by no means the insignificant unimportant trifle it at first sight appears for dust has caused lawsuits dust has caused shipwrecks and dust has caused and still causes death more than this without dust we should probably have no fogs no clouds and no rain there would be no light no colour in the ocean and finally without dust the sun's rays would be invisible to us what then is this dust and where does it come from inside our houses it consists chiefly of the minute particles rubbed off carpets furniture and the like by the ordinary wear and tear of daily life carpets and clothes are constantly being worn threadbare by perpetual rubbing and every time we cut the leaves of a book wind wool use a sewing machine scratch the legs of table or chair every time in fact that we walk across the room we help to make the dust which the housemaid sweeps up in the morning but it is not only the things around us which are being thus continually rubbed and worn something of the same sort happens to ourselves we are perpetually changing our skins not indeed as the lizard does but piecemeal and as the little loose particles are rubbed off they too help to make the dust which collects in our houses and needs to be constantly removed if our bodies are to be kept in a healthy state for the greater part of this dust is organic it has at one time or other formed part of some organized living thing animal or vegetable and as such it will burn quickly if we set fire to it or slowly if we spread it upon the fields and leave it as we say to decay it cannot therefore be wholesome to have it about us as though the exact nature of the germs which spread scarlet fever and other diseases may not be determined one thing is certain namely that they flourish most in the neighborhood of dirt and decaying matter of all kinds the lighter part of this dust floats in the air as we see whenever a sunbeam shines into the room and reveals it to us the heavier settles on the floor and furniture where in towns at least it is so blackened by dust of another kind the smoke and soot arising from the imperfect combustion of fuel that it is not easy to tell what its original colors were still the examination of any bit of flue which has collected behind some piece of furniture too heavy to be constantly moved will show us that it consists in the main of fine hairs and particles of wool worsted cotton etc which have been worn off by the housemaid's broom and our own movements and felted together by pressure some being large enough to show their origin plainly while others are mere dust scarcely distinguishable as hairs at all by the naked eye but besides the dust made inside the house some of that made outside also finds its way in and in dry windy weather covers the furniture with a very unpleasant gritty film for it is so exceedingly fine that like very fine snow it will make its way through the smallest cracks and crevices and is not to be kept out by closed windows in towns much of this dust also is made by rubbing and friction the wear and tear occasioned by the incessant passing of feet and the wheels of heavily loaded vehicles are evident enough for the streets are constantly needing to be repaired on the large flagstones in the main road between the west india docks and white chapel for instance where the traffic is of course exceptionally heavy and unceasing three inches of hard granite were worn away in the course of forty years And the roads of Funchal in the island of Madeira, which run up steep slopes and are paved with basalt, have become polished and slippery from constant use.

Mr. Bates, in his Naturalist on the Amazons, mentions that those mother turtles which had laid eggs the previous year were easily known by the fact that the horny skin of their breastplates was worn by their having crawled over the sand.

Everyone has noticed, too, how very dusty railway carriages are apt to be and though some of the dust in them consists of particles rubbed from the cushions and curtains and some of sand from the road yet a large proportion will adhere to a magnet and prove to be minute fragments of iron and steel worn from the wheels and rails.

The only way to prevent their ravages is to place the legs of every chair and table in pans of water, a precaution which of course is out of the question with doorposts etc., and thus it happens that all the timber of a house may be perforated in every direction until nothing but a thin crust, no thicker than a sheet of paper, remains.

In some cases they seem to know when a post has a weight to support and are careful to fill it up with clay but where the woodwork is not used as a prop they see no need for such precautions and the owner who is thus literally eaten out of house and home may be first made aware of the fact by finding his windowsills crumbling away beneath his touch.

Neither wine casks nor scientific instruments are safe from them and at Tobago they once caused the loss of almost a pipe of Madeira wine but they do not confine their attentions to wood.

An unfortunate engineer in Brazil who had just returned from an expedition with a collection of plans etc left his trunk on a table for the night and found next morning that all his clothes and papers had been destroyed not a square inch of the latter being left while every atom of pencil lead and all had entirely disappeared.

On the large flagstones in the main road between the West India Docks and Whitechapel, for instance, where the traffic is of course exceptionally heavy and unceasing, three inches of hard granite were worn away in the course of forty years.

And the roads of Funchal in the island of Madeira, which run up steep slopes and are paved with basalt, have become polished and slippery from constant use.

Footnote Mr. Bates, in his Naturalist on the Amazons, mentions that those mother turtles which had laid eggs the previous year were easily known by the fact that the horny skin of their breastplates was worn by their having crawled over the sand.

End of footnote Every one has noticed, too, how very dusty railway carriages are apt to be and though some of the dust in them consists of particles rubbed from the cushions and curtains and some of sand from the road yet a large proportion will adhere to a magnet and prove to be minute fragments of iron and steel worn from the wheels and rails but the world's dust is not made solely by man nature too is forever making it in a variety of ways and as dust of all kinds finds its way into our houses it is not too much to say that before we can account satisfactorily for all the contents of the dustman's cart we must know something of nature's labourers and their methods of working the oyster shells are of course indebted to her dust makers and dust carriers for the materials of which they are made and the same frost and heat which have broken countless glasses are likewise busy with the rocks but besides these very obvious items the fine gunpowder-like dust which is sifted out from the other refuse must contain specimens of nature's dust in most if not all of its varieties night and day summer and winter her great army is ever at work cutting carving grinding loosening polishing hammering the rocks and making an impression even on the very hardest of them one result of all this wear and tear is the soil which almost everywhere covers the earth's crust sometimes to the depth only of an inch or two sometimes even less while sometimes again it attains a thickness of several feet at the utmost however its depth may be measured by feet and at its greatest thickness it is to the earth only as the thin film of dust which settles on our furniture but then again some of the mineral dust which finds its way into our streets and vents into our houses has been made altogether outside the world and has floated down through the air from regions of which we know nothing more than the little we can learn from this dust and by means of the telescope cosmic or meteoric dust is of the same nature as those larger fragments of matter which when they take fire on coming into contact with the earth's atmosphere and blaze for a few instants in the sky we call shooting or falling stars the number of these meteorites is simply inconceivable since they form we are told a ring one million miles long and one million deep and the celebrated american astronomer calculates that on an average there fall to the earth every day seven and a half million of a size to be seen by the naked eye and four hundred million which might be seen through a telescope of moderate power and that with the fine dust which accompanies them the daily weight falling upon the earth does not come short of a ton footnote single meteorites sometimes weigh several tons end of footnote but the observations of professor nordenskiold lead him to go much farther even than this where the dust falls upon roads or fields there is of course some difficulty in distinguishing it from dust of earthly origin but where it falls upon fields of eternal snow and ice far removed from any rock or soil which could produce ordinary dust it is more easily collected and from his experience in the arctic regions the professor is of opinion that more than five hundred thousand tons fall uniformly and steadily over the whole globe in each year observations since repeated by the russian scientists in central siberia have yielded similar results for the dust is found to be composed in large measure of metallic particles such as are characteristic of meteorites though others of volcanic origin may no doubt also be mingled with them since we know that fine volcanic dust may be transported almost any distance by currents of air the ice dust or cryoconite as it is proposed to call it is scattered all over the northern ice fields and though well aware that it cannot be lost or wasted in the long run we may hardly perhaps be prepared to find that it is at once taken in hand and turned to account cryoconite the meteoric dust which has been formed who can say by what process in the far off upper regions descends to the earth to form the soil which nourishes numerous hitherto unknown ice and snow plants besides the red snow with whose name we are most of us familiar this plant which is a very lowly organization makes its first appearance in the summer as a pink flush overspreading the snow in large patches sometimes miles in extent not only in the polar regions but on the alps and pyrenees and the mountains of california the spores of the lower orders of plants are very tenacious of life and are capable of bearing such extremes of temperature that no climate will destroy them you may even expose them to a heat of a hundred degrees centigrade two hundred and twelve degrees fahrenheit or to the lowest degree of cold obtainable minus a hundred degrees centigrade and still though lying dormant they will retain their vitality and as soon as they have the opportunity will grow and multiply Though dwelling among snow and ice, however, they need the summer sun to waken them into active life, and they need more than snow and ice to live upon.

and thus it happens that all the timber of a house may be perforated in every direction until nothing but a thin crust, no thicker than a sheet of paper, remains.

In some cases they seem to know when a post has a weight to support and are careful to fill it up with clay, but where the woodwork is not used as a prop they see no need for such precautions and the owner who is thus literally eaten out of house and home may be first made aware of the fact by finding his windowsills crumbling away beneath his touch.

Neither wine casks nor scientific instruments are safe from them and at Tobago they once caused the loss of almost a pipe of Madeira wine, but they do not confine their attentions to wood.

An unfortunate engineer in Brazil who had just returned from an expedition with a collection of plans etc.

É muito difícil, é, as loca-as locações às ilhas são muito difíceis, hããã, e portanto acaba por ter um fator casa muito forte.

É muito difícil jogar, jogar, jogar na Ilha da Madeira.

Después o CAB tem uma história também que consegue valorizar muito bem os seus estrangeiros, sabe escolher os seus estrangeiros e valoriza os-- e-e-e fomo-nos habituando no passado a ver alguns estrangeiros que, que entraram pela porta do CAB e que, e que depois tiveram impacto na nossa liga.

Ééé, depois é um, é um projeto queee, que na época da Proliga conseguiu valorizar o jogador português também, o jogador jovem português.