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ITINERARY CARTE.
ROUTE--from London to Ma.r.s.eilles, about forty-eight hours. Ma.r.s.eilles, Hotel d'Orient.
Ma.r.s.eilles to Algiers, average pa.s.sage, three days. Hotels--Hotel de la Regence and Hotel de Paris, both good.
Algiers to Blidah--horse or diligence--about five hours; Blidah to Medeah--horse or diligence--about eight hours; Blidah to Milianah, about fourteen hours. Blidah--Hotel de la Regence; Medeah--Hotel du Gastronome; Milianah--Hotel d'Iffly.
Milianah to Teniet, two days, staying at Oued el Ma.s.sin, caravanserai; Teniet to Boghar, two days; Boghar to Laghouat, extremity of French frontier in Great Sahara Desert, three days.
From there visit Boussada for Gargelles, thence to Constantine, five days; Constantine to Lake Fetzara and Bona, one day. Bona--Hotel de France.
Another way, is to return to Algiers and proceed by sea to Bona, pa.s.sing Boujie, and Djidjelli, and Philippeville, about forty-eight hours.
From Bona to Tunis, by sea, about eighteen hours; or by land, _via_ Keff, the frontier town of Tunisia and Algeria, about six days; an escort required. Tunis--Hotel de France.
Tunis to Solyman, four hours; Tunis to Biserta, fourteen hours.
On horseback, take two flannel s.h.i.+rts, one change of boots, and bournouse, &c. Average expense per diem, with horse and servant, twenty-five francs. I had three horses and one interpreter, and my expenses averaged 1 10s. _par jour_.
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