To Port Said comes also the Norddeutscher Lloyd Imperial Steamship Company, better known as the German Mail. The East Asian mail line of this company was established only in 1886, and is rapidly growing in importance and favor. The steamers leave Bremen, call at Antwerp, Southampton, and Genoa, thence through the canal to Aden, Colombo, Singapore, and Hong-Kong, to Shanghai. The mail route to Australasia reaches the ports of Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, whence a branch line leads to the Samoan Islands and Tongatabu. The German Lloyd also operate a line from Trieste via Brindisi to Alexandria. For carrying the mails on the above three lines, in accordance with government stipulations, the German Lloyd receives a subsidy of $1,047,619 per annum.

Some of the other long lines operated by this efficient organization, which owns more than 75 ocean steamers, are those between Bremen and the United States, between Bremen and Brazil, and between Bremen and Montevideo and Buenos Ayres.

Table of Distances, Days, and Approximate Prices from London Eastward by Sea to San Francisco.

From New York to London is 3,000 miles, 7-8 days, and $100.

From San Francisco to New York by rail is 3,000 miles, 6 days, and $200.

London.
Miles.Days.Price.
1,2995$45Gibraltar.
Miles.D.Price.
2,2809759814$30Malta.
Miles.D.Price.
3,215131001,9168609354$35Port Said.
4,610201253,311151252,33011120Aden.
6,274272504,975222403,99418220Bombay.
6,703312505,404262504,42322240Colombo.
8,362382907,063332706,08229250Singapore.
9,799453408,500403407,51936340Hong-Kong.
11,6015339010,302483909,32144390Yokohama.
16,6007159015,7806659014,80062580San Francisco.
Port Said.
Miles.Days.Price.
1,3957$120Aden.
Miles.D.Price.
3,059142001,6647$90Bombay.
Miles.D.Price.
3,488182302,093111008754$40Colombo.
5,147253003,752182202,53411130Singapore.
6,584323405,189252503,97118190Hong-Kong.
8,386403706,991333005,77326240Yokohama.
13,8605855012,4605145010,77544360San Francisco.
Colombo.
Miles.Days.Price.
1,6597$90Singapore.
Miles.D.Price.
3,096141501,4377$60Hong-Kong.
Miles.D.Price.
4,898222003,239151001,8028$70Yokohama.
9,900403358,240332506,80026200San Francisco.
Yokohama.
Miles.Days.Price.
5,00018$200San Francisco.

The Austro-Hungarian Lloyd’s Steam Navigation Company, the fourth great main line passing through the Suez Canal, was organized about the year 1840, with 7 steamers for Mediterranean trade. In time, the company prolonged its lines, until, under a liberal government bounty, routes were established between Trieste and Hong-Kong, and between Trieste and Brazil. For the proper performance of all these services the Austrian Lloyds are paid an annuity by the Government amounting to $800,000. The fleet, all told, numbers 75 ships, valued at about $10,000,000, and steams over 1,300,000 miles every year.

Of the different steamship corporations that despatch their vessels by way of the Suez Canal to Australia, the Orient Steam Navigation Company of London deserves special mention. In 1878 it founded a first-class line to Australia, which to-day is a formidable rival of the Peninsular & Oriental Company, receiving a like subsidy of $425,000 for transporting the mails between Naples and Adelaide in 32 days, a distance of 9,000 miles. There are many other companies sending vessels, via the Canal, to India, to China, and to Australasia; on nearly all of them the traveller can find comfort and good cheer, should he desire to be longer at sea and longer in port. The names of a few of the most important of these companies are as follows:

Under the English flag: the Ducal, the Hall, the Harrison, the Clan, the Star, the City, the Direct, the MacIver, and the Anchor lines; the National Navigation Company of France; the Navigatione Generale Italiana (Italian mail) of Genoa; the Compañia Trasatlantica, from Barcelona, Spain; the Nederland India line from Amsterdam; a Russian line; and a Turkish line.