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APPENDIX I
Ways of getting to Egypt, Cost, etc.
those who desire merely to get to Cairo and spend
all their Egyptian visit in the capital, those, in fact, to
whom this book is addressed, the P, and O. Company offer
three diff"erent ways of performing the voyage. The passenger
can either go direct from London to Port Said by sea, which
occupies eleven days ; or go overland from London to Mar-
seilles and thence by sea to Port Said, which occupies five
days ;
or overland from London to Brindisi, and thence by sea
by the P. and O. to Port Said, which takes about a hundred
hours. The passenger by the all-sea route has stoppages at
Gibraltar and Marseilles. A first-class single from London
to Port Said by the all-sea route costs £1^ to ;^I9, and
second class ;^ii to ;^I3, according to the boat. The fare
from Marseilles to Port Said is £\2 to £13 first class and
£Z to ^9 second class. The fare from Brindisi to Port Said
is ;^9, and the fare from London to Port Said via Brindisi,
including rail and sleeping-car, is ;^22 \Q>s. 2d. But all these
prices are subject to the 10 per cent surtax consequent on
the increased price of coal and ship supplies. The passenger
can start by any of those routes once a week. The all-sea
boats leave Tilbury on Friday, the Marseilles boats leave on
Friday also.
But there is also a combined service arranged between the
P. and O. and Thomas Cook & Son which gives the visitor
to Egypt a forty-four- days tour from London to Assuan and
back for forty-five guineas ; and a thirty-days tour, via
Marseilles and Port Said from London, to Assuan and back
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