Immediately on hearing of this disaster I forwarded some hands and packhorses out to convey to camp what was thought to be of any use.
We got on to a cattle run, and when ourpackhorses saw the cattle moving they took fright and galloped off.
Several packhorses were also attached to the party.
When the packhorses had been loaded and we were about to start, leaving the remainder of our provisions in charge of two men, we discovered that our native guide was missing.
The packhorsesfollowed each other in long procession, laden with everything; there were doubtless wheelbarrows and hand carts; but the rumbling of the wheels was not yet a part of the daily noise.
Every day came gloomy accounts from the Ohio; brought chiefly by traders, who, with packhorses bearing their effects, were retreating to the more settled parts of the country.
Bringing up the rear were a couple ofpackhorses well laden.
She turned her horse on the trail behind him, and the other outlaws followed, all riding in Indian file and with several packhorses bringing up the rear.
They were well mounted and armed, had several packhorses with them, and, though not having the excuse of drinking to make them dreaded, had carried on in a way that caused all peaceably disposed persons to dread them.
For a few seconds there was a great deal of splashing and shouting, incidental on the objections shown by the packhorses to take the water; but soon they were all in and fairly on their way.
So one morning thepackhorses were driven up, and the familiar occupation of loading them gone through.
We liked the place so much that we resolved to pass a couple of days there, especially as the packhorses required a rest after the long march from Laguna Blanca.
But as our packhorses required rest, this had to be deferred for a couple of days yet.
The river at the time was very low; but owing to the inequality of its bed and the rapidity of the current, some care had to be taken in crossing the ford for fear any of the packhorses should come to grief.
Every week the master-clothier sends round his men among the villages, their packhorsesladen with wool; every week they return, their packs laden with yarn, ready for the loom.
M'Kinlay next sent Mr. Hodgkinson with men and packhorses to Blanche Water, to take down the news of his discovery, and to bring back rations for a prolonged exploration.
The packhorses sank deep down with their loads; they took off the loads and laid them on the shoulders of the slaves, who threw them off into the mud, and let them stay there, while they made a mad attempt to escape.
To the merchants driving their long chains of slaves and heavily laden packhorses and mules from the north, this was the worst bit of the whole journey.
Next morning they came down, packhorses and all, on their way home.
The messengers with their loaded packhorses rested for an hour, talked to the men at work on the building, learned that the old gentleman in the white waistcoat and gold chain was Geissler, and then they too went on again.
Emigrants on packhorses bound for the land of cane and turkeys saw bodies of scalped white men every day.
You shall have two thousand men, and ammunition and packhorses shall be at the Falls of the Ohio, March 15, ready for the early break of the ice.
Even the packhorses pricked up their ears and required no incentive to induce them to move rapidly down the mountainside.
Yes, a road over whichpackhorses and wagons can be driven.
Josiah Weedon was to come back with a dozen packhorses laden with gold and precious stones.
In the course of four days he set forth from Exeter, with a couple of packhorses to carry his worldly goods, and a serving-man, equipped for his projected voyage to the far East.
In the Valley of Virginia, hemmed in upon the east by the Blue Ridge, packhorses were alone used in this traffic, for the mountain paths were rough and narrow; but wagons could be utilized in the more southern districts.
Reaching Powell's, Boone went into camp to await the rear party, his riding and packhorses hoppled and belled, after the custom of such caravans, and their small herd of cattle properly guarded in a meadow.
Packhorses were in common use in England and on the Continent, and the scrubby, enduring horses raised here soon were used as packhorses.
Imagine our disgust, on returning in the evening, at finding a mob of thirsty packhorses being watered from our precious supply!
A man does not travel his packhorses into the bush for the philanthropic purpose of feeding the aboriginals, and naturally resents his losses and prevents their recurrence in a practical way.
Gibson and Jimmy started back with the packhorses for the Shoeing Camp, while I intended going westward, westward, and alone!
Here we fixed up all our packs, sold Mr. Bagot the wagon, and bought horses and other things; we had now twenty packhorses and four riding ditto.
In the meanwhile the unfortunate packhorses wandered away, loaded as they were, and died in thirst and agony, weighed down by their unremoved packs, none of which were ever recovered.
Six whites were killed and five wounded and a large number of packhorses purloined.
Packhorses ain't usually shod before and behind," said the Virginian; and sliding to the ground he touched the footprints.
Under the walls of the fort were a detachment of ninety riflemen and fifty dragoons under the command of Major McMahon, who had escorted a train of packhorses from Fort Greenville on the day before, and who were now about to return.
On the thirty-first of October, a party of militia, sixty or seventy in number, deserted the camp and swore that they would stop the packhorses in the rear, laden with provisions.
Packhorses to the number of two hundred were quickly taken.
There was no longer any need either for his going to one of the periodical fairs or for his awaiting a call from a travelling middleman with his troop of packhorses in order to obtain supplies.
Of course packhorses could travel where chariots could not, but if the main roads were made for chariots they would be equally good for packhorses.
Kendal was the principal packhorse station on this line of road, sending large trains of packhorses as far south as Wigan, and over the hills, northward, to Carlisle and the borders of Scotland.
Where water transport was not available the services of packhorseswere brought into requisition until the time came when the roads had been sufficiently improved to allow of the use of waggons.
North of Wigan nearly all the trade was carried on by strings of packhorses or by carts.
From Sheffield to Bawtry was a land journey of twenty miles, and thus far, at least, packhorses or waggons had to be utilised over such roads as there then were.
This business having been completed, and the packhorses saddled and loaded, we started at nine o'clock A.
The packhorses were again laden, the rangers swung themselves into their saddles, and the gentlemen beneath the sugar-tree rose from the grass, and tendered their farewells to the oreads.
He was even compelled to sacrifice a considerable portion of his stores, throwing away bags of flour in large numbers in order to effect the release of the packhorses to transport his wounded.
Only when an aside was possible, MacLeod besought his wife to loose the burden of one of the packhorses and mount the animal herself.
No necessary connection was apprehended between the circumstances when four packhorses came over the mountain laden with salt, for even after that event Captain Stuart continued the boiling and stirring that went on down at the lick.
The packhorses found it hard work filing down the sharp declivities and sustaining the equilibrium of their burden.
I had some Elkskins put in the water today make harnes for the packhorses but shall not cut them untill I know the number we can obtain.
I larnt that one of the Packhorses with his load was missing and immediately dispatched Baptiest Lapage who had charge of him, to surch for him.
Fields and myself killed 3 one of which swam the river and fell on the opposite so we therefore lost it's skin I sent the packhorses on with Sergt.
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