Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. HINTS ON TRAVELLING BY LAND AND BY WATER. Engaging a Passage.?Baggage.?Embarkation.?Cabin: Arrangement of Boxes, Ac.?Money and Valuables.? Saloon Arrangements.?The Captain: his Authority and Responsibility.?Lights in Cabins.?Bathing.? Early Rising: en deshabille.?Sleeping on Deck.? Recreation.? Leaving things on Deck.? Children. ?Alarms and Accidents.?Ports of Call.?Parties going Ashore.?Purchasing Curios. ?Stewards and Stewardesses.- Disembarking.? Travelling by Rail. ?Travelling by Road.?Mountain Travelling. A Careful study of the art of travelling with comfort to yourself and neighbour, will well repay you. If for no personal gratification to be derived, consideration alone for the comfort of our fellow-travellers, requires that we should at least make an effort to master the salient points of so comprehensive a subject. It isneither fit nor proper, that others should be inconvenienced, or made to suffer by reason of our ignorance of the ordinary rules of etiquette to be observed when travelling. Where a number of people are congregated together, within the most prescribed limits of space, for a period of time that often extends over several months, it is most absolutely essential for the due preservation of harmony and mutual comfort, that the principle of give and take should be generally accepted, and acted up to in its most generous interpretation; while each and all should strive to render those small courtesies and attentions, that go so far to make life -on board ship not only endurable, but even agreeable. When differences arise between passengers, the exercise of a little tact and good-humour, will, generally, put matters right; whereas, standing upon one's dignity, would be the assumption of a position one might have to maintain wi...