NEW EDITION, PARTLY RE-WRITTEN, AND CORRECTED THROUGHOUT. IN TWO PARTS K PART II. FINLAND AND KGSSI D. KGSSIA. SECTION IV. FINLAN D. PRELIMINARY INFORMATION. 1, Passports.-2. Money.-3. Steam-boats. - 4. Posting and Diligences. UNLESS the traveller's passport has been vise by the Russian Minister or Consul at Stockholm, he will not be permitted to take a berth on board the steamer for Åbo and St. Petersburgh. The fee to the Russian, Consul for his visé is a dollar banco, and this visé on a Swedish passport will be sufficient, and all that is required to land at Åbo. town. 30 There is no search whatever, either of person or property, on landing at that The deck of the packet, on its arrival, is quickly covered with soldiers and policemen, and a sentinel, with fixed bayonet, stands at the gangway until it is ascertained that all parties on board are duly provided with passports, and they may then go on shore without obstruction of any kind. Before quitting Åbo, a new Finnish passport must be obtained from the governor, but there is no occasion to present oneself in order to procure it. The expense is trifling, about 3s. English, and the delay in obtaining it will materially depend on the amount of stimulus administered to the employé. All difficulties will then vanish; the governor, who five minutes before was gone into the country, will be in his Transfer from Circ. Dept. MAY 27 1905 R |
