Still in this—the comparative infancy of the steam route—nine-tenths of those whom fortune may carry to India will prefer the most expeditious manner of proceeding thither; and it, therefore, becomes in the highest degree important that they should be supplied with the fullest information, in furtherance of their purpose.
Under this impression, the following pages have been compiled; and, as we purpose to confine ourselves to useful and practical detail, the reader is left to seek, in the numberless volumes that have been published, a more elaborate account of those objects on his route which he may desire to mark with special attention.
The following division of our subject appears the most convenient for the object of this publication:—
Instructions and Hints to Passengers to Aden, Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, the Straits and China.
To Bombay.
Routes through France and Trieste.
From India, viâ Syra, Malta, Marseilles, or direct to Southampton.
Miscellaneous.