Fayal

/ fəˈial /

noun

An hour's steaming carried us into the anchorage at Fayal, where we remained through the day of December 3rd.

Fayal offers especially favourable opportunities for the obsequies of an unseaworthy ship insured beyond her value.

The principal produce of Fayal is wheat and Indian corn, with which they supply Pico and some of the other isles.

Fayal, although the most noted for wines, does not raise sufficient for its own consumption.

Fayal is connected with Waterville, in Ireland, by a cable laid in 1901.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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