But
For Eight Zequines, Or Four Loui'dores, You Can Have A Whole
Feluca To Yourself, From Nice To Genoa, And The Master Shall Be
Obliged To Put A-Shore Every Evening.
If you would have it still
more at your command, you may hire it at so much per day, and in
that case, go on shore as often, and stay as long as you please.
This is the method I should take, were I to make the voyage
again; for I am persuaded I should find it very near as cheap,
and much more agreeable than any other.
The distance between this place and Genoa, when measured on the
carte, does not exceed ninety miles: but the people of the
felucas insist upon its being one hundred and twenty. If they
creep along shore round the bottoms of all the bays, this
computation may be true: but, except when the sea is rough, they
stretch directly from one head-land to another, and even when the
wind is contrary, provided the gale is not fresh, they perform
the voyage in two days and a half, by dint of rowing: when the
wind is favourable, they will sail it easily in fourteen hours.
A man who has nothing but expedition in view, may go with the
courier, who has always a light boat well manned, and will be
glad to accommodate a traveller for a reasonable gratification. I
know an English gentleman who always travels with the courier in
Italy, both by sea and land.
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