336 RIFLE AND SPEAR WITH THE RAJPOOTS. 



monotonous that it was quite an excitement to consider 

 and order the morning repast, and certainly a great 

 comfort to have only the plats you want, and not to 

 be surrounded by " Irish stew," " tripe and onions," and 

 similar simple but savoury dishes which frequently figure 

 at an early hour on the table of an English steamer. 



This boat was crammed with Australians on their way 

 to the mother-country. Britannia once more ruled the 

 waves, and swamped our little cosmopolitan crew with a 

 flood of colonial Britishers. 



After a very pleasant and pretty passage through 

 the Straits of Messina and Bonifacio, we landed at 

 Marseilles, transhipped into the Rapide for Calais, and so 

 ended an expedition which I only regret we are not 

 to-day commencing. 



THE END. 



RICHARD i LAY AND SOSS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BUNGAY. 



