The commuuication between the two continents of Europe and Africa is at the present time as easy and as regular as that between England and Belgium A vas twenty years ago. Twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, excellent steamers belonging to the Messageries I mperiales leave Marseilles for A lgiers. Besides these, a steamer belonging to a private Erench company leaves each port every Thursday. These latter vessels are not quite so speedy as the packetboats, as they are built to carry merchandise, and consequently they enjoy less popularity with the travelling public. In one of them, however, I embarked on the 31st of December, (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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