In St. Michael's and the other islands of the Azores, there are very curious bullock carts made of basket-work, with solid wheels.
CARRO DA MONTE, MADEIRA.
From the Azores, or Westward Islands, we journey on until we come to the West Indies, where, in Jamaica, we find that large, four-wheeled wagons are used in the sugar plantations. These have high sides so that great quantities of the canes can be carried, and are drawn by four or six oxen.
BULLOCK CART, AZORES.
Small donkeys with panniers also have their share of work in Jamaica, but the negro inhabitants do much of their transport for themselves, and on market days chattering crowds of women may be seen making their way into the towns with great baskets of fruit or heavy bundles tied up in gay bandana handkerchiefs on their woolly heads.
After seeing the islands of the Atlantic Ocean we skirt round Africa and come to Madagascar, where we find litters in use which are much like those we have already seen in many countries and in many ages. A traveller who visited Madagascar in 1861 describes a royal procession when the queen rode in a palanquin that was richly gilt and embroidered with gold and scarlet.