The latter route, though three times as far, is often adopted by travellers as being less expensive and troublesome.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Then there was, it seemed to her, something suggestive in the fact that Bullen, who had a share in Nasmyth's project, and owned several horses, had not seized upon the opportunity to aid the travellers, for, if he had not been willing to lend his horses, it could only have been because he was a little dubious about the strangers.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Of one of my fellow-travellers I shall often have occasion to speak.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot