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to the cook, steward, or ship s servant that waits upon you, and in a 

 clean ship, you may make the passage so, more agreeably than in any 

 other way ; more so than in the first cabin at four times the expense. 

 The price of the regular first-cabin passage out is $90. In the steerage, 

 you pay $10 to $12 for a mere sleeping-place, provide yourself with 

 stores, cook for yourself, or hire some fellow-passenger, who does not 

 suffer equally from sea-sickness, to cook for you. You must provide 

 yourself with bedding, cooking utensils, &c. It will cost you about $20. 

 Secure, if possible, an upper berth, near the hatchway ; be provided 

 with an abundance of old clothes ; look out for pilferers ; spend an hour 

 each morning in sweeping and keeping clean the steerage ; nurse the 

 sick ; take care of the women and children ; and keep the deck all the 

 time that you otherwise can. You will probably have a very miser 

 able time, but it will be over after a while, and you will have seen a 

 peculiar and memorable exhibition of human nature, and will go ashore 

 with a pleasure not to be imagined. You can go to Liverpool or 

 Glasgow by the screw-steamers, (second cabin and found,) decently and 

 quickly, for from $50 to $75. The same by the mail-steamers, not so 

 comfortably, but more quickly. Most disagreeably, but soon over with, 

 in the steerage of some of the steamers for $40. 



Returning. You have the same (and rather increased second-cabin 

 accommodations by the London packets), at about 10 per cent, higher 

 prices. You can live comfortably for two months, and see &quot; the lions&quot; 

 in Paris or London, for the difference between the first and second-cabin 

 fare out and home. 



Our Expenses for board and bed, while in the country in England, 

 averaged seventy-five cents a-day. Expenses of short conveyance by 

 rail, coach, and boat ; fees to showmen and guides ; washing, postage, 

 and incidentals, (properly included as travelling expenses,) added to 

 this, made our average expenses about one dollar a-day each. How 

 we fared, and with what degree of comfort or luxury we were content, 

 the reader should have already been informed. I have, however, 

 dwelt more upon the agreeable than the disagreeable side of such 

 travelling. We often, on entering a town, looked from one inn to an 

 other, in doubt which to select, desiring to avoid unnecessary expense, 

 while we secured quiet and cleanliness. Sometimes we would enter a 

 house and ask to see the rooms and know the charges. No offence was 

 ever taken at thfe, though once or twice, where we were going to spend 

 a Sunday, and the rooms were not agreeable, or convenient to write in, 



