jo8 The National Geographic Magazine 



Transportation by Man Power, Yokohama. Photo by O. P. Austin 



far the most comfortable method of travel 

 in Korea. A team of good coolies will 

 take you over the country at the rate of 

 four miles per hour, sixteen hours at a 

 stretch, thus enabling you to make over 

 60 miles in a single day, provided you 

 are willing to endure your share of the 

 fatigue by sitting cross-legged in the 

 box for that length of time. 



Japan is said to be the home of the 

 jinricksha, which it is claimed was in- 

 vented by an ingenious American mis- 

 sionary. Whatever may be the true story 

 of its nativity, it is no longer peculiar 

 to that country, for you see it every- 

 where along the Asiatic coast, from Cey- 

 lon eastward to Vladivostok. While the 

 jinricksha is the popular mode of convey- 

 ance in the coast cities and on the level 

 country roads of Japan, it will not serve 

 in the mountains, which abound in every 

 part of the interior. There its place is 



taken by the "kago," which is quite simi- 

 lar to the "dandy" of India. 



Even in the most occidental of all the 

 oriental cities — Yokohoma — where con- 

 tact with western methods has induced 

 the adoption of many of our customs, 

 man power is still the principal factor 

 in transportation. 



As we leave Japan our steamer must 

 be again coaled, for Japan furnishes the 

 chief coal supply of the orient at the 

 present time. The coal is brought along- 

 side the vessel in open barges ; a series 

 of platforms built out at the side of the 

 vessel, each one about 4 feet higher and 

 3 feet narrower than the one next below, 

 looking like a big flight of steps up the 

 side of the vessel. Then a Japanese 

 man or woman is stationed on each of 

 these steps, and a lot of men and women 

 in the barge below, and supplied with 

 scores of small baskets, holding not to 



