HOW TO TRAVEL.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1880, by
THOMAS W. KNOX,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

All rights of translation and foreign publication are reserved.

To all Travelers on Land and Sea,

this volume

is sympathetically inscribed.

PREFACE.

In preparing this volume for the press the author of "How to Travel"has endeavored to supply a want whose existence has long been apparentto him. Having journeyed somewhat over the earth he is frequentlyconsulted by friends and acquaintances who are about to travel, andwish to know what to do before setting out on their undertakings, andhow to meet the various perplexities that are sure to arise. Inpreparing this book he has answered a great many interrogatoriesthat have been addressed to him in person, and if the manner of hisresponse should be considered didactic, he begs the reader to rememberthat the author is endeavoring to meet the questions of the would-betraveler, and, therefore, addresses him in the second person. Asnearly as possible he has embodied in "How to Travel" as muchinformation as could be wrung from him by a vigorous and thoroughinterrogation of a couple of long winter evenings, conducted by aninquisitive couple who were about starting on a journey around theworld and up and down its surface.

With the changes that are constantly going on, some of the informationhere given may be found slightly inaccurate, but it is hoped thatinstances of this sort will be rare. Prices of hotels, steamships,railroads, and the like are subject to alteration, and consequently noabsolute rule can be laid down. But the author believes that in theinstances where his figures may be found astray they are so near themark that they will prove of material assistance to the traveler.

As the author is neither a lady nor a lawyer, he has found itdesirable to invoke the aid of those important members of society inthe preparation of the book. A reference to the table of contentswill show the assistance they have given him, the one in a chapterof "Special Advice to Ladies" and the other in "Legal Rights ofTravelers." All other parts of the book are of his own production andthe results of his experience in travel, covering a period of morethan 20 years and embracing many lands and seas.

With this explanatory preface, and trusting that the volume will bea sufficient apology for its existence, the author delivers it to thehands of the traveling public, and hopes for a verdict in its favor.

T. W. K.

New York, February, 1881.

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