Excerpt from Travels in Europe and Northern Africa: A Woman's View The steamer Etruria, on which we embarked, had three other tourist parties on board, all full of life and enthusiasm. There were those who had crossed the Atlantic as many as thirty times; one who had rounded the Cape of Good Hope; another who could tell of Florida; some, of the White Mountains or of the pyramids of Egypt, and all were glad to exchange thoughts on the pleasures of travel. The Sabbath witnessed a crowded dining-room, for divine service, which was read by the captain of the steamer, from the Episcopal ritual. At breakfast two sit tings were allowed; the first, to accommodate those who arose with the sun, and the last, for those of later habit. The menu was excellent: apples, peaches, plums, pineapples and raspber ries; and meats, bread and cakes in great variety. As we sat on the deck and looked out over the smooth sur face of the ocean, dotted only by small ecks of foam, the gen eral conversation was very much enlivened by the young men and women, from sixteen to twenty, who were among the pas sengers. What you put into the first of life, you put into the whole of life is a very true statement; and the ocean furnishes many instructive object lessons for the young. To see the ocean is to understand its vastness, and to watch the working of the great steam engine awakens thought on mechanism and power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."