Bombay, Overland to 36 Bombay, Rules for Passengers by the East India Company's Steamers 39
Distances from Calcutta, Madras and Bombay 108
Lazaretto, Maltese 67 Lazaretto, Marseilles 62 Lazaretto, Syra 63
Overland Journey, Expense of 67 Overland _Viâ_ France, Germany and Italy 41 Overland Homeward 47, 65
It is not our custom to seek business by the channel of continued advertisements, but we feel it to be our duty through the present opportunity to thank the Civil and Military Services of India, as well as many others, for the confidence they have been pleased to place in our management, when entrusted with their commands, and, further, to assure them that our effort to please, which has hitherto secured to us so large a portion of their patronage and support, will be energetically continued, and that our constant endeavour is to execute every commission entrusted to our care with promptness and fidelity.
We feel that a general Agency of this description to be really useful must embrace every variety of service, and that acute attention should be paid to the smallest trifle, often regulating the comfort and convenience of those by whom we are employed.
With these prefatory remarks, we may commence our detail, by observing--
Captain BARBER'S long experience in the East India Company's maritime service, together with his personal knowledge of all the first-class ships or steamers, fully qualifies him to furnish every information that can possibly be required for the voyage to India or China, whether the long sea or Overland Route be chosen.
Supposing the Overland Route to be chosen, no time should be lost in giving us directions to select the best vacant berth in the steamer, and to collect and ship all heavy baggage round the Cape, so that it may arrive sufficiently early to meet its owner at the Presidency.
The detail of an <big>OUTFIT</big> for so long a journey is a matter of serious consideration, both as regards comfort and cost--from ignorance on this subject it too frequently happens, that an expenditure beyond that which is necessary, fails to provide for the wants that might have been satisfied for a much less sum--and, further, even when the list is well chosen, the articles are bought at a great price, or indiscriminately procured from advertising tradesmen, who supply inferior goods.