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[Special Correspondence Cleveland .]

, July 1871.

From Bonvbay te Suez is a vorage of nhout thee thottsund miles, and usually oc- eMpies fourteen days, One half the roule lies across the Arabian Seato Adena, the sreat coalmg station where all steamers touch, and the other half is wp the to the mouth of the Snez canal, Our the “ Arabia,” is one of the Mubitine,” or lialiau line, that make monthly trips fram Genoa to Botubay, passing across the Medit- erranean to Port i, throvgh the Suez canal, down the Red sea to Aden, saul thence sixteen hundred mi ass the Seu uf Arahin to Bombay, She ja Clyde-huilt, of ironnearly new, with very civil andaltenttve ullieers who speuk no Tngtsh, lt under- stand a HU as well as Maha. "Phe first class cabins forward—u goud improvement in a warm elimale, for we here get pure air and much less jar from the machinery, Vhe — pas- sengers are nearly all Iinglish offi- cers With their families returning home on a two years’ furlough, which they are allowed after seven years’ service in Indla. Of the eight officers’ wives on board, six went out to India as brides, and are now on their way hack for the first time. Several have children sent home to “Grandpa” in England,