QUEBEC CALÈCHE 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. The first conveyances of all, used in far-away prehistoric days and later still in wild uncivilised lands, were simply rough sleds on which heavy loads were dragged. Later, circular slabs of wood were cut from the trunks of trees to serve as wheels, and, instead of pulling these primitive carts themselves, the men trained oxen to do the work.