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Africa Mauritius

Packet Rates: While 1/- was the British Packet via Plymouth and Falmouth, it was 1/8 via Marseilles.

Letter Sent and Returned

1/8 paid

To Port Louis, Mauritius, 22 June, 1867-40 days
Paid Packet Letter from Paisley, Scotland via Marseilles. Carried by P&O steamers from
Marseilles and Suez to Galle, Ceylon. From Galle, Ceylon by Union Steam Ship packet per
steamer Mauritius, arriving 1 August, 1867. Two attempted deliveries and notation made,
"Recipient Gone Away" and returned via Newcastle upon Tyne, 26 September, 1867.

Working on sugar plantations in Mauritius was often on a contracted basis, a two year rotation the individual would return home.