10 A TRAVELLING COMFORT. 



Brown, made my arm-cliest an ample one, and fitted 

 me out with every sort of weapon or firearm that sport 

 or danger might require. In alluding to my weapons 

 I must not forget a perfect long hunting or clasp knife, 

 which had been given to me, containing, besides its 

 trenchant blade, a lancet, tweezers, and cork-screw, all 

 very useful things in forest, field, or camp. 



The first thing that a traveller ought to do on board 

 a packet is to look to the due arrangement of his lug 

 gage, and before it is all stowed away in the "hold" 

 assigned it, to point out to the steward that part of it 

 which is necessary to his personal comfort on the voy 

 age, and which can be put in his private cabin. As an 

 article of the greatest use in carrying clothes, as well 

 as for its extreme comfort in other respects, let me 

 advise every traveller to come, whether male or female, 

 to provide for themselves an oval-shaped tin bath, or 

 packing-case bath, with strap and lock. I procured one 

 from Mr Barrett, at the corner of Albemarle-street, in 

 Piccadilly, and it not only gave me the fresh sea wave 

 of the Atlantic every morning throughout my voyages 

 for my bath, but it was the only packing-case I had 

 that completely withstood the brutal and dishonest usage 

 of the baggage-masters on the American railways, as 

 well as the rough but fair wear and tear of waggon - 

 carriage during my camping out on the plains of the 

 Far West. This sort of package not being universal, 

 or at least much delighted in by travellers in the United 

 States, I shrewdly suspect that the men in the baggage- 

 cars on the railway regarded my tin bath as a magazine 

 of gunpowder or combustible matter, and not as a package 

 containing anything they could steal, if by knocking it 

 intentionally about they could start the lock. Hence, 



