Show ta e I 1 H V TNT WORM AM 4 IL NEXT AIR FEAT FEA ra I 1 some aviator expected to emulate magellan by long cruise STILL NEW TO MANY LANDS national geographic society says there are many places where airplane automobile and even horse would be curiosity washington now inow that the atlantic has been crossed and there fire are plans afoot to fly over the pacific the day may not be far distant when some aerial INIa magellan gellan aill make an airplane tour around the world says a bulletin of the national Go geographic graphIc society there are still many corners of the world where airplane automobile and even the horse would be curiosities and if a man set out to tour the globe and do as the romans do in id respect to adopting native conveyances he would have to resort kesort to a donkey in spanish america and in the holy land climb aboard a camel to traverse african deserts cross some rivers of india on the inflated skins of bullocks and others by a bridge of one rawhide rope using elephant as taxi submit to the seagoing sea going motion of an elephant when he be continued his fits journey on laud land get into a nian man borne palanquin at calcutta jolt over far eastern roads in a non don shock absorbing cart drawn by oxen and in china he prepared to climb into a jinrikisha a sedan chair or a wheelbarrow A few of these curious means of ti travel arc re ae described bribed in a communication to fo the society ey by 0 P r austin as follows in all parts of that great line of deserts stretching front from north africa across central asia to northwest china the camel is everywhere in evidence the total number tit in the world being climaxed cli esI mated at about three millions not only Is the camel a valuable freight frel glit carrier but he serves as the traveling car of the rockefellers Rocke fellers the carnegles Carne gics the morgans arid and the ilar crimans ADS of the desert when lie Is ra losen chosen h for tills this more pretentious service a light framework Is placed upon his bade back and covered with clo claths cloths to screen the occupants from the sun and the observation of tile the passers and decorated with pompons of various colors in this gorgeous compartment part ment which may be not inaptly termed the palace car of the desert the master of the camel train places his wife and children his choicest merchandise ill his s cooking utensils and dally daily requirements and travels in state the observed of all observers the envy of the wandering native of the desert craft on the euphrates on the euphrates and the tigris are still retained the curious water transports of centuries ago the alie raft of skins and the circular boats these rafts are sustained by inflated skins arc prepared ared for this espell espee lal ial purpose and after the raft floats down the river to its destination the inflated skins are removed the air permitted to escape and the skins ekins carefully folded and carried back to the upper waters where they are again inflated and used as the support of another and still another raft even more curious to the hie enes of the traveler from other parts of the world are the circular alts made of wickerwork and covered with skins or mide made watertight with pitch which are still in dally daily use on oil the tigris and euphrates rivers the three principal methods of transportation of people in central and southern china are the sedan chair the jinrikisha and the wheelbarrow probably more freight and more mora passengers are transported in china by the wheelbarrow than by any other land method the wheelbarrow there thera used differs from that used by us in the fact that the wheel Is set in the tha center and thus supports practically the entire load while the handles are supported in part by a strap or rope ropa over the shoulders of the man who operates it As a result the wheelbarrow coolie in china will transport nearly a half ton on ills hn vehicle lele |