Southampton

But when Mr. James, to crown all, said he had no doubt that his friends, the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, would make Mr. Titmarsh the present of a berth for the voyage, all objections ceased on his part: to break his outstanding engagements — to write letters to his amazed family, stating that they were not to expect him at dinner on Saturday fortnight, as he would be at Jerusalem on that day — to purchase eighteen shirts and lay in a sea stock of Russia ducks, —was the work of four-and-twenty hours ; and on the 26th of July, the Lady Mary Wood was sailing from Southampton with the "subject of the present memoir," quite astonished to find himself one of the passengers on board.

But when Mr. James, to crown it all, said he had no doubt that his friends, the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, would make Mr. Titmarsh a present of a berth for the voyage, all objections ceased on his part. In twenty-four hours he broke his outstanding engagements, wrote letters to his amazed family telling them not to expect him at dinner two weeks from Saturday, as he would be in Jerusalem that day, and bought eighteen shirts and laid in a sea stock of Russia ducks. And on July 26, the Lady Mary Wood was sailing from Southampton with the “subject of the present memoir,” quite astonished to find himself one of the passengers on board.