yi2 The National Geographic Magazine 





Photo from David Fairchild, U. S. Dep't of Ag 



A Carriaee in Madeira, where all Conveyances are Sleds 



general transportation service to Tokyo 

 and thence to the surrounding towns. In 

 the Philippines a line of motors is about 

 being put in to carry passengers on cer- 

 tain country roads, pending the comple- 

 tion of the railway, for which contracts 

 have recently been let. 



A special type of vehicle, made in 

 Paris, has now trains of horseless freight 

 and passenger trucks operating in France, 

 Belgium, Germany, Turkey, Servia, Bul- 

 garia, Algeria, Central Africa, Chile, and 

 Peru. 



And, finally, so confident are those ac- 

 quainted with the horseless vehicle and 

 its ability to operate in the tropics and 

 the orient, that a race of motor vehicles 

 from Pekin, China, to Paris, France, a 

 distance of 9,000 miles across the desert 

 and through countries in which the camel 

 is now the chief carrier, has actuallv 



taken place, more than a score of vehicles 

 having entered the race. 



Horseless vehicles may be operated by 

 steam, by gasoline, by alcohol, or by 

 electricity, and the material with which 

 to supply this power is available in trop- 

 ical as well as temperate-zone countries. 

 Today great steamships are running from 

 Borneo, in the tropics, to the ports of 

 Western Europe, traveling a distance of 

 12,000 miles without a single stop, .with 

 power generated by liquid fuel drawn 

 from the oil fields of Borneo ; while in 

 practically every section of the tropics, 

 except the deserts, are available millions 

 of horsepower in its water-falls, which 

 may now be utilized, since man has at 

 last learned to transmit that power from 

 the place of production by wire and util- 

 ize it for operation of railways, trolley 

 roads, or even horseless vehicles. 



