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ing, conundrums, puns, stories of adventure according to fancy, concerts, literary exercises, "Mrs. Jarley's Wax-Works," personal reminiscences. It is usually the case that passengers are more sociable and homogeneous when going over to Europe than when returning to America; this is remarked by many. On the return the passengers are more apt to break up into groups, which are exclusive centres unto themselves. Tourists should be prepared to take a part in those sociable entertainments which are wisely calculated to enhance the general happiness, welfare, and homelike feeling of the company. At the risk of being called dogmatic, I wish to say candidly to persons who are out upon the ocean for the first time, that they may safely assume that the officers of the ship understand their business without any suggestions. This remark is ventured because all passengers are not equally credulous in the ability of the officers. knew one gentleman who, on hearing some unusual noise of the machinery, hastened to tell the engineer of it, with advice as to how it could be stopped! Another passenger saw a ship over the bow of the boat not far away, and thought it best to start off rapidly to tell the captain of it in order to prevent a collision! While the officers and seamen are generally very courteous and solicitous for the comfort of the passengers, it should never be forgotten that they should not be annoyed by needless questions and perplexing complaints. If the officers are under obligations to the passengers, they are equally entitled to a reciprocal attention. Executive officers must be habitually thoughtful, and this usually makes them reticent when on duty.

One other point I would make to tourists:

That a sea-voyage is no time for displaying special spheres or crotchets, nor for uttering hypochondriac fears, nor for moaning with constant sighs over the imaginable dangers that are in the way, nor for making one's self and all the rest miserable by reason of constant dissatisfaction and fault-finding.

Among the items of interest to a tourist on his first voyage are these: The meeting of other ships and signaling them; seeing icebergs occasionally, and whales, sharks, dolphins, porpoises, sea-birds on tireless wing ever and anon riding the waves; the petrels and sea-gulls which often show great perseverance in following the ship far out to sea in order to find any stray crumbs of food which may chance to be cast out upon the water. It is remarked by some that sea-gulls never show their blind faith and lack of wit so fully as when they follow ships of certain nationalities, notable for their economy, under the vain expectation that anything for them to eat will ever be thrown overboard from those ships.

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The tourist will note the decreasing length of the days as he sails eastward, and the increasing as he travels westward on his return voyage. will regard the long days in the high latitudes in the summer season and the reverse in winter; the sailors casting the log every two hours; the taking account of the temperature of the water; the observations made by the officers in order to determine the exact daily latitude and longitude of the ship, and to estimate the distance over which the ship has passed since noon of the day previous; to study the storms, the heavens, the ever receding and approaching horizons; to ride the billows and the troughs of the

sea-all these are full of deep interest to the tourist.

But the sympathies of the passengers are all aroused when, far out at sea, some land-bird with strength fairly expended, which has strayed and become wholly lost in its reckonings, alights upon the ship and immediately goes to sleep from exhaustion. This gives some idea of the extent of the ocean, and of its unfriendly and inhospitable wastes.

The days of the greatest official vigilance are those in which the dense fogs off the Banks of Newfoundland enshroud the ship in impenetrable mist; the fog whistle is blown every minute or two, for days and nights together sometimes; the new passenger will awake in the morning, or in the night it may be, and the whistle will impress him for the moment that he is just coming into a station on a sleeping-car, but soon he realizes that he is in the midst of the troubled deep.

As the vessel approaches the pier, the passengers show themselves upon deck, their ship attire generally exchanged for their shore clothes. The steamer having finally settled herself at her dock to rest from her long and weary journey, the passage-ways being thrown up, the passengers hasten to bid each other good-bye, their hearts fairly sad that the separation, although anxiously anticipated, has come so soon.

XII.-Entering the Port of Destination.

Upon approaching port the ship is boarded by a pilot who comes out to meet it, and the health officer who inspects it at the quarantine station, and should the ship carry mails, the official barge will probably come out for them at this station in order to expedite their delivery. These officers bring newspapers, the passengers eagerly crowd around the lucky man to get sight of this intelligent visitor. How welcome is the paper to us so long without it! If the ship comes to quarantine at night, it seldom leaves before daylight the next morning. Shortly before reaching port the customs officers usually arrive, and sometimes the baggage is examined by them before it is put off the ship.

The passenger should surely see that all his pieces of baggage are gathered together at some convenient place, in order that the examining officer shall be at the least amount of time and trouble

in the discharge of his duties. The customs examination is a simple affair to an honest passenger who readily opens his trunks and portmanteaus, and answers frankly the questions put to him by the officer. In connection with this matter, and at the risk of being thought unkind, I may be permitted to hint to tourists that it is a matter of grave inconvenience, and often of risk to them, to carry orders from friends for purchases to be made in Europe. Examinations being done, the pieces are closed and the officer marks upon them with chalk some weird

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symbols which prevent their further detention. English customs officers frequently examine only one out of three pieces of luggage, or two out of six.

At New York the officers come on board the ship before it arrives at the pier. One of the officers brings blanks which he fills out according to the statement of each passenger, as to the number of pieces of luggage and dutiable articles in his possession, and hands to each person a slip of paper on which is the corresponding number of his blank, which, as soon as completed, is handed to a second officer, if there be one, who calls upon the passenger by number to testify that this statement is "true to the best of his knowledge and belief." This is all until the baggage is landed upon the dock and taken into the enclosure. The passenger first sees that his different pieces are all placed together, as before stated, and then goes to the front, where stands an officer with all the filled-out and numbered blanks. On presenting his numbered slip, the officer finds the corresponding blank, hands it to a sub-officer and directs him to go at once and examine that baggage. The pieces should be rapidly opened for inspection, as time is valuable in the hurry and scurry of these occasions. The examination finished and the luggage chalked, the tourist is at liberty to take it away. No fees are due any customs officers for this labor. For the Custom-House Regulations for the Continental ports, note the following:

"Passengers, on landing, are not permitted to take more than one small bag with them on shore. The Custom-House Porters who are responsible for its safety, convey it direct from the vessel to the Custom-House, where the owner, to

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