LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| | PAGE |
| [PREHISTORIC SLED] | 3 |
| [EARLY CART WITH SOLID WHEELS] | 4 |
| [EGYPTIAN CHARIOT] | 5 |
| [ROMAN TRAVELLING CARRIAGE] | 6 |
| [ROMAN LITTER AND MOUNTING STOOL] | 7 |
| [EARLY SIDE-SADDLE] | 9 |
| [A MEDIÆVAL COACH] | 12 |
| [AN OLD FAMILY COACH] | 13 |
| [RIDING PILLION FASHION] | 14 |
| [SEDAN CHAIR] | 15 |
| [POST-CHAISE] | 16 |
| [IN THE WILD WEST] | 17 |
| [SEASIDE CARRIAGE DRAWN BY GOAT] | 22 |
| [BELGIAN DOG-DRAWN CART] | 25 |
| [SEDAN CHAIR, CONSTANTINOPLE] | 26 |
| [TURKISH MOURNING CAR] | 27 |
| [SCHIESSEL CART] | 29 |
| [SICILIAN CART] | 30 |
| [CART IN COLOMBO, CEYLON] | 33 |
| [BOMBAY CART WITH HOOD] | 35 |
| [CONVEYANCE FOR ZENANA LADIES] | 36 |
| [EKKA] | 37 |
| [CAMELS HARNESSED TO CARRIAGE] | 38 |
| [CHINESE COUNTRY CHAIR] | 43 |
| [MULE PALANQUIN] | 44 |
| [WHEELBARROW OMNIBUS] | 45 |
| [A TRAVELLING TRADESMAN] | 46 |
| [CHINESE CART] | 48 |
| [JAPANESE RICKSHAW] | 49 |
| [CAPE BULLOCK WAGON] | 53 |
| [DURBAN RICKSHAW] | 55 |
| [BEIRA TRAM] | 58 |
| [CAIRO CART] | 59 |
| [IN MOROCCO] | 61 |
| [AMERICAN TROTTER] | 64 |
| [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
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.