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of satisfactioD, we returned from our two months' tour 

 heartily gratified with the result, and eager to make known 

 to our countrymen what a delightful field for tourists, 

 hitherto fresh and unhacknied, lies within easy reach of 

 England, at the south-western corner of Europe. 



My dear father was my companion, as in all my best 

 foreign tours in former years, and will again be designated 

 in these pages as F. ; and whereas I again carried a gun 

 and a double field-glass, and all the apparatus required by 

 an ornithologist, for obtaining and preserving specimens 

 of birds, he was provided with his camera, and all that a 

 photographer needs for a successful campaign amidst the 

 most striking objects of interest ; and so great was his 

 perseverance, and so determined his attacks, that he car- 

 ried away forts, churches, and cloisters at the camera's 

 mouth, and his portfolio remains as ample proof of his 

 prowess, both within and beyond the strong lines of Torres 

 Vedras, in this second, though bloodless. Peninsular war. 



Perhaps it may be advisable to say one word on the 



subject of expenses, which, however vulgar and prosaic, 



does nevertheless demand the attention of most travellers. 



The calculations which we had made from the pages of 



the Handbook, previous to our start, proved to be exactly 



correct, and may be roughly defined thus : — 



£ 5. d. £ s. d. 



For each tourist, passage out by steamer ; -\ 



everything included . . . .1210 0[^, 



Journey home by land, by rail, first class, f 



(hotels MOi{ included ) . . . . 12 10 oJ 



Hotels ; seven weeks, at an average of about -j 



six shillings per day . . . • ^'-^ ^ ^125 



Journeying through the country, by rail, dili- j 



gence, mule, or boat . . . . lU ' 



£oO 



