The Innocents Abroad | Page 9

Malta,
Cagliari (in Sardinia), and Palma (in Majorca), all magnificent harbors,
with charming scenery, and abounding in fruits.
A day or two will be spent at each place, and leaving Parma in the
evening, Valencia in Spain will be reached the next morning. A few
days will be spent in this, the finest city of Spain.
From Valencia, the homeward course will be continued, skirting along
the coast of Spain. Alicant, Carthagena, Palos, and Malaga will be
passed but a mile or two distant, and Gibraltar reached in about
twenty-four hours.
A stay of one day will be made here, and the voyage continued to
Madeira, which will be reached in about three days. Captain Marryatt
writes: "I do not know a spot on the globe which so much astonishes
and delights upon first arrival as Madeira." A stay of one or two days
will be made here, which, if time permits, may be extended, and
passing on through the islands, and probably in sight of the Peak of
Teneriffe, a southern track will be taken, and the Atlantic crossed
within the latitudes of the northeast trade winds, where mild and
pleasant weather, and a smooth sea, can always be expected.
A call will be made at Bermuda, which lies directly in this route

homeward, and will be reached in about ten days from Madeira, and
after spending a short time with our friends the Bermudians, the final
departure will be made for home, which will be reached in about three
days.
Already, applications have been received from parties in Europe
wishing to join the Excursion there.
The ship will at all times be a home, where the excursionists, if sick,
will be surrounded by kind friends, and have all possible comfort and
sympathy.
Should contagious sickness exist in any of the ports named in the
program, such ports will be passed, and others of interest substituted.
The price of passage is fixed at $1,250, currency, for each adult
passenger. Choice of rooms and of seats at the tables apportioned in the
order in which passages are engaged; and no passage considered
engaged until ten percent of the passage money is deposited with the
treasurer.
Passengers can remain on board of the steamer, at all ports, if they
desire, without additional expense, and all boating at the expense of the
ship.
All passages must be paid for when taken, in order that the most perfect
arrangements be made for starting at the appointed time.
Applications for passage must be approved by the committee before
tickets are issued, and can be made to the undersigned.
Articles of interest or curiosity, procured by the passengers during the
voyage, may be brought home in the steamer free of charge.
Five dollars per day, in gold, it is believed, will be a fair calculation to
make for all traveling expenses onshore and at the various points where
passengers may wish to leave the steamer for days at a time.

The trip can be extended, and the route changed, by unanimous vote of
the passengers.
CHAS. C. DUNCAN, 117 WALL STREET, NEW YORK R. R.
G******, Treasurer
Committee on Applications J. T. H*****, ESQ. R. R. G*****, ESQ. C.
C. Duncan
Committee on Selecting Steamer CAPT. W. W. S* * * *, Surveyor for
Board of Underwriters
C. W. C******, Consulting Engineer for U.S. and Canada J. T.
H*****, Esq. C. C. DUNCAN
P.S.--The very beautiful and substantial side-wheel steamship "Quaker
City" has been chartered for the occasion, and will leave New York
June 8th. Letters have been issued by the government commending the
party to courtesies abroad.
What was there lacking about that program to make it perfectly
irresistible? Nothing that any finite mind could discover. Paris, England,
Scotland, Switzerland, Italy--Garibaldi! The Grecian Archipelago!
Vesuvius! Constantinople! Smyrna! The Holy Land! Egypt and "our
friends the Bermudians"! People in Europe desiring to join the
excursion--contagious sickness to be avoided--boating at the expense of
the ship--physician on board--the circuit of the globe to be made if the
passengers unanimously desired it--the company to be rigidly selected
by a pitiless "Committee on Applications"--the vessel to be as rigidly
selected by as pitiless a "Committee on Selecting Steamer." Human
nature could not withstand these bewildering temptations. I hurried to
the treasurer's office and deposited my ten percent. I rejoiced to know
that a few vacant staterooms were still left. I did avoid a critical
personal examination into my character by that bowelless committee,
but I referred to all the people of high standing I could think of in the
community who would be least likely to know anything about me.
Shortly a supplementary program was issued which set forth that the

Plymouth Collection of Hymns would be used on board the ship. I then
paid the balance of my passage money.