He had another look at the Rajah's handsome boat, which took the place of a carriage in that roadless place, and saw that the Malay prince had turned and was gazing back.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
The boats attached to posts or palm-tree trunks told of the aquatic lives of the people, this being a roadless country, and the rivers forming the highway from village to village or town to town.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
Again, they were entangled among the rugged, roadless gorges and precipices of a mountain range, through which no vehicle of European construction could have passed without absolute demolition, and up parts of which the Cape-waggons were sometimes compelled to go by means of two teams,-that is, from twenty to thirty or more oxen,-being attached to each.
"The Settler and the Savage"
R.M. Ballantyne