To understand how cruising developed into a 1SUCCESS industry, you have to take a brief look at the past. Today’s cruise industry 2ACTUAL has its roots dated to the early 1840s. Among the earliest cruise passengers was author Charles Dickens, who booked passage in 1842, along with 86 fellow 3TRAVEL, on a mail ship called Britannia (operated by Canadian Samuel Cunard, 4FOUND of the Cunard Line). Writing in American Notes about his journey from Liverpool to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Boston, Dickens describes the cramped quarters, coffinlike cabins, and passengers, 5INCLUDE himself, getting 6SEA (although he claims that he just felt woozy). Conditions had somewhat improved by the time Mark Twain took a transatlantic voyage on the steamship Quaker City in 1867. Twain described his cabin as having “room to turn around in, but not to swing a cat in, at least with entire 7SECURE to the cat. ” Well, at least he didn’t get sick. In The Innocents Abroad, Twain wrote, “If there is one thing in the world that will make a man 8PECULIAR and insufferably self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave himself, the first day at sea when nearly all his comrades are seasick.