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Updated: July 14, 2025
Coru-hin-Irigod, riding beside Ganadara, pointed up the trail ahead. "From up there," he said, speaking in Acalan, the lingua franca of the North American West Coast on that sector, "we can see across the valley to Careba. It will be an hour, as we ride, with the pack-horses. Then we will rest, and drink wine, and feast." Ganadara nodded.
If men must journey off their own feet, they rode horses. Pack-horses were used regularly to carry goods, where nowadays a horse or, more probably, a steam or motor engine would easily pull the goods conveniently placed on a cart or lorry. The paving of rough cobbles and ample mud was distinctly poor.
Whereby HOHENZOLLERN comes to mean the HIGH or Upper TOLLERY; and gives one the notion of antique pedlers climbing painfully, out of Italy and the Swiss valleys, thus far; unstrapping their pack-horses here, and chaffering in unknown dialect about TOLL. Poor souls; it may be so, but we do not know, nor shall it concern us.
He invented colours, as well as bodies, for the manufacture of his earthenware, both for use and for decoration, and built up a business employing 15,000 persons in his factories, and 30,000 in all the branches of his business. We must remember that in 1760, the only way of transporting goods to and from the Wedgwood factory was by means of pack-horses.
There was now a gap in the row and as the ashes blew away Jim saw pack-horses in the opening. "Who is it?" he asked Jake. "A Government outfit, I expect. Prospectors don't load up with tents and stores like that." "If they're Government men, it means somebody from the telegraph department is coming to look at our job." "Yes," said Jake. "I reckon we'll soon know our luck."
That was the disturbing thought that had troubled the two boys all along; and now, when they began to realize how great was the flood of gold-seekers constantly pouring into the mining regions and how their keen eyes would be searching everywhere, their anxiety to get to their fathers as quickly as possible grew apace, until they were almost as eager to reach the mines as was Tim Perkins himself; and, by a constant urging of their pack-horses, managed to keep their places with Jud Smith and his company.
"Stackpole and I did it in a little over two days from here; but, on account of the pack-horses, it will probably take us a little longer." "Shore you remember th' trail?" "Yes," and Dickson's eyes turned northward. "Now that I am on the ground, things come back to me.
Although our poor little dog Toby is carried on one of the pack-horses, he is unable to bear this great heat. I fear he will not survive the day. Arrived at Milne Springs about 5 p.m. At sundown poor little Toby died, regretted by us all, for he had already become a great favourite." On January 21st Mr.
Then they went to the stable where the horses, which were strong serviceable-looking animals, had been placed, and put on their saddles and bridles. The pack-horses were then laden with flour, tea, sugar, bacon, and other necessaries. By the time all was ready the caravan was just starting.
The author of 'Adam Bede' has given us a poet's picture of the leisure of last century, which has "gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow waggons, and the pedlars who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.
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