How the World Travels

								




    CAPE BULLOCK WAGON                    53



    DURBAN RICKSHAW                       55



    BEIRA TRAM                            58



    CAIRO CART                            59



    IN MOROCCO                            61



    AMERICAN TROTTER                      64



    QUEBEC CAL�CHE                        65



    LLAMAS                                68



    CUBAN VOLANTE                         69



    AUSTRALIAN BOUNDARY RIDER             71



    COUNTRY COACH, AUSTRALIA              72



    MIXED TRANSPORT IN NIGERIA            76



    CAMEL WITH BRIDAL BOWER               78



    CARRIERS IN THE FOREST                80



    MONO-RAIL WORKED BY NATIVES           82



    ICE-BOAT                              86



    REINDEER AND SLEDGE                   87



    EXPLORERS DRAGGING SLEDGE             88



    INDIAN TRAPPER ON SNOW-SHOES          90



    ENGLISH SLEDGE                        92



    A HAPPY PARTY IN AUSTRALIA            93



    BULLOCK CARRO, MADEIRA                96



    TRAVELLING HAMMOCK, MADEIRA           97



    CARRO DA MONTE, MADEIRA               98



    BULLOCK CART, AZORES                  99



    MADAGASCAR LITTER                    101



    PONDICHERRY PUSH-PUSH                103



    EARLY ENGINE                         107



    WHITE SUDAN TRAIN                    108



    MOUNTAIN RAILWAY                     109



    HIGH BICYCLE                         111



    EARLY CYCLE                          113



    EARLY MOTOR-CAR                      114



    MONO-RAIL CAR, WITH GYROSCOPE        119



    OVERHEAD TROLLY                      121



    MONOPLANE, THE FIRST TYPE TO

      CROSS THE CHANNEL                  123



    WATERPLANE, BIPLANE, AND

      SCOUT BALLOON                      125

ILLUSTRATIONS II

    RIDING A BULLOCK IN AFRICA.      frontispiece



    STATE ELEPHANT IN INDIA.                   32



    PALANQUIN FOR ARAB WOMEN.                  81

HOW THE WORLD TRAVELS

CHAPTER I
TRAVEL IN THE OLDEN DAYS

"Coach, carriage, wheelbarrow, cart": we have all, most likely,
repeated these words again and again, as we counted the
cherry-stones out of a pie, the petals of a daisy, or the tufts
on a blade of grass, and we have hoped, as we counted, that Dame
Fortune would give us a coach or a carriage to drive to church in
on our wedding morning.
A cart seemed a very commonplace affair, and a wheelbarrow was
almost too absurd to be possible. Yet there are countries where
people actually ride in wheelbarrows and in other conveyances even
more quaint and unusual.
It will be interesting, perhaps, to borrow a magic carpet for
a little while, or the cap of Fortunatus, and travel round the
world and back through the ages of history, so that we may see the
strange vehicles that are in use to-day, and those in which our
ancestors made their journeys hundreds of years ago.