Identifier: azoresorwesterni00walk (find matches)
Title: The Azores : or Western Islands : a political, commercial and geographical account ...
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Walker, Walter Frederick
Subjects: Azores -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Trubner & Co.
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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is the singular carapu9a, unique in itsextravagant design, yet not altogether devoid of utility, forits immense frontal brim of half a foot in depth, terminatingin crescent shaped cusps, shades the face and even chestfrom the sun ; from the close-fitting body of the hat (devoidat the back of any brim) falls a cape-like covering of finecloth, effectually protecting the wearers neck and shouldersfrom wet, advantages which may possibly compensatefor its great weight. The origin of the carapu9a hasever been a mystery, and for some time its singular nameconveyed but an abstract idea to my mind, until dimmemories of half forgotton lessons in zoology returned, and * The Hindus throw a farinaceous powder, dyed red, called gulal, on eachother during the Holi, the great festival held at the approach of the VernalEquinox. 284 referring to the friendly and well-thumbed glossary, thefollowing word occurred—carapace—a protective shield ofcrab, lobster, and many other Crustacea. It would really
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ST. Michaels peasant and carapuca. seem as if some wag of the sixteenth century had coinedthe word carapu9a, to spite and poke fun at those who usedso hideous a covering. It is singular how, in the size and form of their carapu9as,the people of the various, and particularly remoter villages in 285 St. Michael preserve a species of ethnographical distinction,which extends to the entire gronp, the carapu9as, especiallyof St. Michael, Terceira, and Madeira, differing so entirelyas if they belonged to different planets, and a very interest-

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