New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-26
How TO get to Europe And what to do at sea.

NEW YORK, l9th Sept ls45.
II. GREELEY Esq--Deay SIR. In No l said q
word about " How to get ready TO go to Europe
and promised in No = to send the traveller 70 sea
There are several ways 10 get TO Europe-the best
way yet discovered is 10 go by water, for s long
way by land and, beside Capt Marryat says ii svery
dusty
/ You can take Steamer, Liner or Transient
/ Ship. If you are in a hurry as Americans gene
rally are. take steamer The great consolation
there is that you calculate about the day
your voyage will be over--while in liner all you
can do is to make up your mind to stay board
till you reach your port
The principal advantage however OF the steamers
is in retwntng-take one to come back by all means.
The sailors have saying that from Europe TO Amer
ica its all up hill-and it is Westerly winds pre-
vail three-quariers of the time. the Gufsream is
hard to cross and often the liners are 80 and some
times 20 days in returning, while perhaps their
Spring and Fall passages ont will not average more
than 20 days The accommodations are good enough
in either oi the liners and the passage
money going out about the same; the packets take
a little less while in returning the difference is al
most half The steamers know they will make the
passage back in less than half the time of the liners
probably in one-tbird, and they take advantage of
their knowledge
But go and come in one or the other and never
trust yourself ON board TRANSIENT ship if you
suit comfort or economy. There are 60 reasons for
this. III trouble you with only half dozen OF
them. They never sail the day fixed and while you
are waiting your hotel bill Is more than you save in
passage money. Their cooks are ten to one taken
from the forecastle and such gentry seldom
adopts in the gastrOnomlc art-besides it's hard 10
make g0od brick without some clay lean fowl
"a rarity at that and salt JuHck II don't know rs
spell it right and "saggy" potatoes have few at
fractions for a sea sick siomach-par,icuarly when
tbe cook is nasty" as the English ladies say
Your sheets will be turned once week and chang
cd once month. Your towels napkins they never
have oftener perhaps You are liable to have bad
company, I'd or Sd rate sort of folks--the Captain
not unfrequently rough vulgar man. sometimes in
ciDed to play off 1.-THE little ,yrant just because be
IS lord on his own deck.
We seen so much and heard so much more about
the despicablc treatment passengers, and particu-
larry ladies' lave been obliged to submit TO in tran
sent vessels ] m sick of that way of crossing the
sea And then you almost to be third or
half longer on the voyage than in the liners There
is no economy in it. You must lay in some little
stores Of your own which will cost >20-or s25-
md the rats or somebody else will have the eating
Of them Transient vessels ought not TO advertise
in such flaming terms their superior cabin accom-
modations people are de ceved. They are not
prepared to carry cabin p',ssengers-they do
only TO make money and this is right alowl-but
in accomplishing their lofty object they do take
some questionable liberties with their passengers
stomachs feelings, &c. There are exceptions,
know, but they are so rare ! think we can pass
over them. ! have had occ aston TO know something
about the matter and my advice still is-don't take
transient ship.
What port 10 sal for If you go for health, only
,r principally and go in he Fall go to Havre-
lvoid the cold chilly air of England If you must
consult economy, and wish To hasten on 10 n mild
Innate take a Marseles Packet they leave
Sew-Y York the first Of every month, and are good
hips At Marseilles you go in a steamer in day
" two to Genoa, Florence Rome. From New
York TO Rome this way will cost you only 500
ia England TO Rome, $500; via Havre sl65 or
$40. Visit England only in the Summer or
Autumn. Itsa glorious country for the Rich
Southey saws il he'll for the Poor. But II must
DC seen TO advantage-Junc or October are the
months. But we shall come to this by and by.
Remedy for Sea Sickness without which life
IN the sea is charming thing The only mime
iiate remedy every body is acquainted with
Somebody once prescribed cork in the throat well
wired down; but that would take too long. Like
,ome Doctors, | can prescribe remedy for sea
sickness which will cure any body bat myself
Like Demosthencss three recipes for eloquence,
would say in this case, eating-eating-ea All
his in the absence of Homeopathy, which, properly
applied will cure any case of sea sickness Take
rom one up to a dozen buckets of sea-water every
morning dashed over you by sailor use the flesh
brush without mercy; exercise as much as possible
particularly on the rope ladders don't read, for sea
sickness originates in the brainit has more to do
with The stomach than with the toes the bathing
and brush and exercise are all good, sick or not
md nobody can get the full benefit ola seavoyage
without them Last remedy, and one never knew
fail even in my own case IL nothing will cure
YOU. grin and bear it like Trojan keep up your
,punk and you will &c, over il as soon as you land
and then YOU will be well enough TO pay for 1t all.
In haste YOURS truly c. EDWARDS LESTER