Queer Mehods of Travel 



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Photo and Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, New York 



Camel Wagons at Delhi, India 



With the scarcity of animal power in 

 the tropics and the orient, man has de- 

 vised many methods for travel and trans- 

 portation, and, in many cases, has, per- 

 force, put his own shoulder to the wheel, 

 or his own neck under the yoke, and made 

 himself a burden-bearer and the trans- 

 porter of not only merchandise, but, in 

 some cases, of his fellow-man. 



I confess to you that until I had visited 

 these countries and seen these things with 

 my own eyes I could scarcely realize that 

 the conditions which I had seen pictured 

 were those of the present day ; but now 

 that I have seen them in actual existence in 

 this twentieth century, I begin to realize 

 the great disadvantage under which tropi- 



cal and oriental man has labored in his at- 

 tempts to develop exploration, intercom- 

 munication, and exchange of products, and 

 the great benefits to him, and to geog- 

 raphy, to science, and to commerce which 

 would come from some satisfactory de- 

 vice which would do for the tropics and 

 the orient what the horse has done for 

 the temperate zone Occident. 



Our line of march in observing these 

 peculiar conditions will take us around 

 the world, plunging first into the Spanish- 

 American tropics, thence to Western and 

 Northern Africa, thence for a short tour 

 through Southern Europe, thence via the 

 Holy I^and to India, Tibet, the Malavan 

 peninsula, Java, the Philippines, China, 



