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48 ROUTES TO INDIA.
But a person taking a whole cabin is permitted to
have one-half more baggage than the regulated allow-
ance. The Egyptian Transit Company, however, de-
mand 14s. per cwt. for convej'ance of baggage through;
should it exceed 2 cwt. for first-class passengers, and
1 cwt. each for servants and children. No package of
baggage must exceed 80 lbs. weight, or measure more
than 3 ft. in length—1 ft. 3 in. in breadth—and
1 ft. 2 in. in depth. A departure from this regulation
causes a detention in Egypt to such packages of a
fortnight.
As soon as the baggage is embarked it is placed
below in the baggage room, no passenger being
allowed to take trunks, boxes, or portmanteaus, in the
saloon or cabin; but on application to the captain the
baggage can be bad up during the passage.
It is of importance that every package should bear
the name of the owner in legible characters, and that
the passage-money be paid before the passenger at-
tempt to embark.
The minimum equipment requisite for the overland
trip is as follows. Gentlemen and ladies can increase
this quantity ad libitum, but it should be remembered
that a portion of the articles with which they may
supply themselves are not needed in India, and will
only prove an encumbrance when the voyage is at an
end. We make no distinction in the supplies required
by writers and cadets, for it is presumed that all gentle-
men like to make the same appearance. Discarding,
then, the soft persuasions of the wily outfitter, and
remembering that the cheap and the good are not always
synonymous, let the intending traveller, when he has
engaged his passage, hie to Killick, 7, Ludgate Hill,
or Thresher and Glenny, Strand, and equip himself
with—
Four dozen cotton shirts; three dozen pairs of cotton
socks or stockings; a dozen India gauze flannel waist-
But a person taking a whole cabin is permitted to
have one-half more baggage than the regulated allow-
ance. The Egyptian Transit Company, however, de-
mand 14s. per cwt. for convej'ance of baggage through;
should it exceed 2 cwt. for first-class passengers, and
1 cwt. each for servants and children. No package of
baggage must exceed 80 lbs. weight, or measure more
than 3 ft. in length—1 ft. 3 in. in breadth—and
1 ft. 2 in. in depth. A departure from this regulation
causes a detention in Egypt to such packages of a
fortnight.
As soon as the baggage is embarked it is placed
below in the baggage room, no passenger being
allowed to take trunks, boxes, or portmanteaus, in the
saloon or cabin; but on application to the captain the
baggage can be bad up during the passage.
It is of importance that every package should bear
the name of the owner in legible characters, and that
the passage-money be paid before the passenger at-
tempt to embark.
The minimum equipment requisite for the overland
trip is as follows. Gentlemen and ladies can increase
this quantity ad libitum, but it should be remembered
that a portion of the articles with which they may
supply themselves are not needed in India, and will
only prove an encumbrance when the voyage is at an
end. We make no distinction in the supplies required
by writers and cadets, for it is presumed that all gentle-
men like to make the same appearance. Discarding,
then, the soft persuasions of the wily outfitter, and
remembering that the cheap and the good are not always
synonymous, let the intending traveller, when he has
engaged his passage, hie to Killick, 7, Ludgate Hill,
or Thresher and Glenny, Strand, and equip himself
with—
Four dozen cotton shirts; three dozen pairs of cotton
socks or stockings; a dozen India gauze flannel waist-