Unofficial Beginnings' in Century: The First St the Early "Twenties of Last earner and the Latest The story of the origin of commmnieation between England, India, and the East, both overland and by ea, is full of interest. In the early ays of history, the route to India was mostly overland via Syria and Persia, and, indeed, the story of the and of the Chronjules of the Kings of Israel is the geography of this route. La ed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
It is interesting to record that in 1833, Lieut, Thomas Waghorn started his enterprise of the carriage of mails across Egypt, thence conveying them by the Red Sea to Bombay, and in a circular letter dated January 8, 1895, he said:— write to inform you and other merchants. connected with India that T'jeave London on. Tuesday, the 5th, and Falmouth on Friday, February by. the: Steam Packet nly arrival there, T leave with for Alexandria, from. ther Tand to Suez, sail down the Red wind is fair) and across the sca for Bombay, where T expect to arrive in 70 days' from England.
hall carry ters as Tecan get at five shillings each. Any Letters. that your firm or your friends may wish to send by this quick opportunity for India T shall be glad te take, I ahall be in England again in November next, and in all pro: hhablity go (should steam commanication not be established between England and India) annually In February The Earl of Inchcape who succeeded'Sir Thomas Sutherland at the Close of I91t_as chairman of the Joint and identical. boards of the F&O. and BB. 1. Companies.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.