Passengers can remain on board of the steamer, at all ports, if
     they desire, without additional expense, and all boating at the
     expense of the ship.

       All passages must be paid for when taken, in order that the most
     perfect arrangements be made for starting at the appointed time.

       Applications for passage must be approved by the committee before
     tickets are issued, and can be made to the undersigned.

       Articles of interest or curiosity, procured by the passengers
     during the voyage, may be brought home in the steamer free of
     charge.

       Five dollars per day, in gold, it is believed, will be a fair
     calculation to make for all traveling expenses onshore and at the
     various points where passengers may wish to leave the steamer for
     days at a time.

       The trip can be extended, and the route changed, by unanimous vote
     of the passengers.

      Chas. C. Duncan, 117 wall street, new York R. R. G******,
     Treasurer

      Committee on Applications J. T. H*****, Esq.  R. R. G*****,
     Esq.  C. C. Duncan

      Committee on Selecting Steamer Capt.  W. W. S* * * *, Surveyor
     for Board of Underwriters

       C. W. C******, Consulting Engineer for U.S. and Canada J. T.
     H*****, Esq.  C. C. Duncan

       P.S.—­The very beautiful and substantial side-wheel steamship
     “Quaker City” has been chartered for the occasion, and will leave
     New York June 8th.  Letters have been issued by the government
     commending the party to courtesies abroad.

What was there lacking about that program to make it perfectly irresistible?  Nothing that any finite mind could discover.  Paris, England, Scotland, Switzerland, Italy—­Garibaldi!  The Grecian Archipelago!  Vesuvius!  Constantinople!  Smyrna!  The Holy Land!  Egypt and “our friends the Bermudians”!  People in Europe desiring to join the excursion—­contagious sickness to be avoided—­boating at the expense of the ship—­physician on board—­the circuit of the globe to be made if the passengers unanimously desired it—­the company to be rigidly selected by a pitiless “Committee on Applications”—­the vessel to be as rigidly selected by as pitiless a “Committee on Selecting Steamer.”  Human nature could not withstand these bewildering temptations.  I hurried to the treasurer’s office and deposited my ten percent.  I rejoiced to know that a few vacant staterooms were still left.  I did avoid a critical personal examination into my character by that bowelless committee, but I referred to all the people of high standing I could think of in the community who would be least likely to know anything about me.

Shortly a supplementary program was issued which set forth that the Plymouth Collection of Hymns would be used on board the ship.  I then paid the balance of my passage money.