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How Xhiing^s are Done iu Otlier 
Countries— HoM' People XrsETel, 
If asked to take a drive, I have no donbt that most of 
you would be very "willing to go, as there are few thinga 
that boys or girls like better than to be seated in a car- 
riage of some kind, behind a lively stepping horse, and 
go along amootb roads in a pleasant locality, where 
fields, hills, rivers, and farm-houses make up a charming 
panorama. But when driving alone in this pleasant 
manner, did you ever think of how differently people in 
other parts of the world go from place to place? If a 
tanner in one part of our country, New Mexico, were to 
take you on a jannt— I mean one of the original New 
Mexicans, not the ''Americanos'" who have gone there 
since— the chances are that he would put you into a cart 
with solid wooden-wheels— not a nail used in the whole 
of it, and with a pair of oxen hitched by their horns, he 
would start off quite lively. When the oxen were fairly 
on the trot, if you did not go many miles, you would get 
about as much ride to the mile as anywhere— with the 
music thrown in. This vehicle makes its own music as 
it goes along ; the wheels are of wood, the axles are of 
wood, and the music they make as the clumsey wheels 
go wobbling around, is quite unlike any other music, or 
-if you prefer it— any other noise, I have ever heard. In 
a wonderful contrast with this, would be your journey 
with a Lapp; the fleet reindeer instead of oxen, and a 
sledge, that has no wheels at all. If you took your ride 
in India, the carriage would not be behind the animal, 
but on his back, as you would no doubt have an elephant, 
and in that country it is well to be up out of the reach of 
tigers. I have no doubt that by thinking a little, you 
can imagine other ways of traveling: the Esquimaux 
would take you with his dogs, elsewhere it would be a 
yak, a camel, a buffalo, (not our'a though"), a llama, and 
so on until you get around to China. "When you in 
imagination reach Canton, Pekin, or other large city, you 
will expect to take your ride about it with a carriage and 
horses. But as the streets are only 6 or 8 feet wide, and 
crowded with people, carriages like ours would not get 
along very well if they had them. Their carriages are 
purely Chinese— and the power that moves them purely 
Chinese— in fact a Chinaman. The picture shows a 
couple of ladies going out to make a call, or to do their 
shopping, and you get a very good idea of the turnout, 
and also of the dress of the passengers. You may think 
that the coach bears a strong resemblance to a vehicle 
you have known at home as a wheelbarrow. If it does, it 
is the only w^heeled vehicle that they have, and this 
comes within one, of having no wheels at all. When 
there are two passengers, they seat themselves one on 
each side of the wheel, as in the picture, but if there is 
but one, that one, at least if a man, sits astride of the 
wheel. I never had a chance to try a Chinese coach,J)ut 
a friend who was a long time In Canton, says it ie*not 
so bad when the streets are smooth, but when the road- 
way is rough, he much preferred to go on foot. To 
judge by the road in the picture, the ladies will get 
their money's worth, if they go very far. Those who do 
not like this kind of vehicle take the only other that is 
to be had, which has no wheels at all, but is a Sedan 
chair, a box large enough to sit in, with long handles or 
shafts at each end. Here the motive power is not a 
Chinaman, but two Chinamen ; they pick up the Sedan 
and its passenger and resting the shafts on their should- 
ers go off at a jog trot, which is very pleasant for the 
one who is inside, whatever it maybe for the two out- 
siders. Tou may think it very strange that men do the 
work that in other countries is done by horses or other 
beasts, and you would hardly enjoy a ride if you were 
carried about by two of your own countrymen. But we 
shall not have to go very far back to find that our own 
ancestors used a conveyance very much like that of the 
Chinese, for not longer than a hundred years ago. Sedans 
were in use in England and to some extent in this coun- 
try. I call the Chinese affair a Sedan, because I do not 
know any other name for it. The European Sedan chair 
is said to have been invented in the French town of Se- 
dan, a place now noted as that where Napoleon III. sur- 
rendered to the Prussians in 1870 ; but as in China all 
their ways are very ancient, I have no doubt they used 
Sedans there long before they were known in Europe. 
In England there were not only public Sedans to be hired 
on the streets, but every person of means had his private 
ones for the use of the family, and they were uuch used, 
especially by ladies, and I have old people speak of see- 
ing them in our streets. So in our ways of going about 
cities we are only about a century ahead of the Chinese, 
I may add that a Palanquin is only a larger form of Se- 
dan, in which the passenger lies down upon a stuffed 
cushion and it is carried by four men, two at each end. 
These are still in use in Hindostan, and also in parts of 
Brazil, and travelers speak of them as being very 
comfortable. The Doctor. 
