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3. Swamps .—How are they passed ? Is anything sunk to 
preserve the roadway ? 
4. Fords .—Are any measures taken to preserve or improve 
them? Do the natives understand the natural line of fords 
from salient to salient banks ? 
5. Ferries .—Are any boats kept for the purpose ? how 
maintained ? what payment is made ? any understanding 
with neighbouring tribes respecting them ? 
6. Bridges. —Are any of the following kinds used?— a , 
bridges of single trees, or trees from opposite sides crossed 
and fastened in the middle ; bridges of piles and beams ; 
c, trestle bridges ; d , lattice bridges ; bridges of upright 
jambs and lintels of large stones ; f sloping jambs united at 
top ; g , arches of horizontal slabs overlapping and con¬ 
verging, and closed by a large slab at the apex ; /£, bridges of 
radiating arches ; z, boat bridges ; k , raft bridges ; /, flying 
hoat bridges ; z;z, swing bridges ; zz, rope bridges ; o , suspen¬ 
sion bridges. 
7. Are corduroy roads known ? 8. What points are attended 
to in selecting the halting-places ? 9. Any kind of inn or 
public house ? and how maintained ? 10. How are travellers 
.accommodated in villages ? 11. Are wheeled vehicles used? 
if so, describe them ? 12. Poles fastened to horses and trailed 
behind. 13. Are palanquins known, and carried by men or 
horses ? 14. Describe pack-saddles, and all modes of carrying 
burdens on animals 5 backs. 15. Are cradles or knapsacks used 
on the backs of the men? 16. Any public conveyances or 
horses ? 17. What ceremonies or salutes are made by passers 
on a journey, or on entering houses or villages ? 18. What 
permissions have to be obtained by travellers? 19. Any 
passes or complimentaryintroductions to neighbouring tribes ? 
20. In transporting great weights by large numbers of men 
is the principle of pulling simultaneously by sound of 
music or voice practised, as with the ancient Egyptians and 
Assyrians ? 21. Are great weights suspended by crossed 
beams on the shoulders of a number of men, as with 
the Chinese ? what is the name for this ? 22. Anything 
of the nature of milestones ? 23. Drawings of signposts, 
