pony-gait

Updated: June 25, 2025

Each subject becomes a fresh study. Men drawing vehicles, like horses between the shafts, and trotting off at a six-mile pony-gait while drawing after them one or two persons, is a singular sight to a stranger. So are the naked natives, by fours, bearing heavy loads swung from their shoulders upon stout bamboo poles, while they shout a measured chant by means of which to keep step.

Maturin Murray Ballou - Foot-prints of Travel: or, Journeyings in Many Lands