People travel for various reasons-for business, pleasure and discovery; in different elements–land, water and air; and by different methods, from walking to riding in trains, ships and aero planes.
The simplest way of travelling by land is on `Shanks’s mare’- that is, on foot. This is the only mode of travel for the poor man; but some who could afford to tour by train or motor car, prefer, when travelling for pleasure, to walk.
From the most ancient times men have trained animals, horse, to carry them, or to draw wheeled vehicles in which they could rest in comfort; and in the days before railways were introduced, most travelers rode on horseback, or in chariots, carts, carriages and coaches.
But in these days, mechanical carriages, steam or petrol driven, have largely taken the place of horse-carriages. Even the poor can now travel quickly and comfortably in the railway trains, and the well –to-do –tour all over the country in their motor –cars. The humble bicycle, too, is great help to men of moderate means.
The boat, propelled by oars, and the sailing –ship are very old inventions and most of the famous explores made their, in wooden sailing –vessels. But the sailing –ship has now been almost driven from the ocean by the great steamers, which enable travelers to accomplish sea voyages in weeks, which formerly took months, and even years.
And now in our own century man has conquered the air, and can travel as the birds travel. The wonderful invention of the air-ship (or dirigible balloon) and the aero plane enables travelers to cover in hour or days distances which take the fastest steamship weeks.
In all these modes of travel, men by their higher intelligence have harnessed the forces of nature, to carry them over the world-animal –strength, wind, steam, gas electricity.
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