. How the world travels . seen, clattering along the dusty roadsor toiling up the steep passes across the Alps. CHAPTER IV JOURNEYS THROUGH INDIA WE have seen some of the strange vehiclesof England and Europe, and now wewill travel eastward into Asia. There,as is only right, we must go first to India, for thegreat peninsula is one of King Georges domin-ions, and its inhabitants, whether they be black,brown, or yellow, Hindoo or Mahomedan,civilised or savage, are as much British subjectsas we are ourselves. India is an immense country, extending as itdoes from the Himalayas in the north to Poin
. How the world travels . seen, clattering along the dusty roadsor toiling up the steep passes across the Alps. CHAPTER IV JOURNEYS THROUGH INDIA WE have seen some of the strange vehiclesof England and Europe, and now wewill travel eastward into Asia. There,as is only right, we must go first to India, for thegreat peninsula is one of King Georges domin-ions, and its inhabitants, whether they be black,brown, or yellow, Hindoo or Mahomedan,civilised or savage, are as much British subjectsas we are ourselves. India is an immense country, extending as itdoes from the Himalayas in the north to Pointde Galle in the extreme south of Ceylon, and ifwe travel through the country we shall find manycurious vehicles. Some of them are exactly thesame as those which were in use hundreds ofyears ago, for India is a conservative land, and,although there are railways and tramways therenow, while fine motor-cars speed along the roads,most of the natives are content with old ways,and travel through the country districts in the 32. State Elephant ix India. JOURNEYS THROUGH INDIA 33 quaint bullock carts and palanquins that satisfiedtheir ancestors in the days before the powers ofsteam and electricity had been discovered. We will begin with Colombo, as that is usually
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