In 1866 Mrs. Clifton again took her family home, this time travelling by P. & O. There were a party of Shanghai ladies travelling together, including the British Consul's wife, Mrs. Markham, and the ship was very comfortable. There was no Suez Canal in those days, so they disembarked at Cairo and stopped at Shepheard's Hotel, which was then a bungalow. Camel carts were used for transport. The party visited Jerusalem, and Mrs. Limby was interested to see the. recent pictures of the Holy City in the home papers, because it looked exactly the ime. From there they went to Alexandria and picked up another P. & O. for England.
On the return voyage, which they made in.1870, they were passengers on one of the Clipper ships—the Argonaut—and came by way of the
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.