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that the passage shall cost them but from twenty to thirty dollars. 

 With good messmates, good catering, a liberal gratuity to the 

 cook, steward or ship's servant that waits upon you, and in a dean 

 ship, you may make the passage in this way more agreeably than 

 in any other ; 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 fel- 

 low-passenger, who does not suffer equally from sea-sickness, to 

 cook for you. You must provide yourself with bedding, cooking 

 utensils, etc. It will cost you about $20. Secure, if possible, 

 an upper berth, near the hatchway ; be provided with an abund- 

 ance 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 be very 

 miserable, but it will be over after a while ; you will have seen 

 a peculiar exhibition of human nature, and will go ashore with a 

 pleasure not to be imagined. You can go to Liverpool or Glas- 

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

 and quickly, for from $50 to $75. The same by the mail-steam- 

 ers, not so comfortably but more quickly. Most disagreeably, 

 but soon over with, in the steerage of some of the steamers for 

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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 "the lions" in Paris or London, for the difference be- 

 tween the first and second cabin fare out and home. 



Our Expenses for board and bed, while in the country in Eng- 

 land, averaged seventy-five cents a-day. Expenses of short con- 

 veyance by rail, coach and boat ; fees to showmen and guides ; 

 washing, postage and incidentals (properly included as traveling 

 expenses), added to this, made our average expenses about one 

 dollar a-day each. How we fared, and with what degree of com- 

 fort 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 traveling. We often, on enter- 

 ing a town, looked from one inn to another, in doubt which to 

 select, desiring to avoid unnecessary expense, while we secured 

 quiet and cleanliness. Sometimes we would enter a house and 

 usk to see the rooms and know the charges. No offense was 



