k ARCHING ORDERS. 107 



Cabin, First Class. 



New York to Halifax and return $28.00 



New York to St. John's and return 34.00 



New York to Pilley's Island and return 72.00 



If there are four in the party the accommodating 

 agents will allow an agent's commission of five per 

 cent, which will add $14.40 towards the purchase of 

 provisions for the outfit. 



NO DUTY AND TWENTY CUBIC FEET SPACE ALLOWED 

 FOR BAGGAGE. 



There is no duty on guns or any other baggage, 

 providing you bring the articles back to the United 

 States; and each passenger is allowed twenty cubic 

 feet of space for baggage, irrespective of weight. 

 Hand baggage and guns are allowed in state rooms. 



All preliminaries having been attended to, all we 

 required was a telegram from Bowring & Archibald 

 announcing the arrival and sailing of the Portia, 

 which, as we had been informed, would not sail 

 through to Pilley's Island, but connect at St. John's 

 with the coast steamers sailing north, and land us at 

 Pilley's Island about the 12th to the 15th of October. 



MARCHING ORDERS. 



September 28th, in the early morning, the word 

 came, "Portia sails from Robinson's, Congress Street, 



