mule-back

He had shot big game in Siam, pearled in the Paumotus, visited Tolstoy, seen the Passion Play, and crossed the Andes on mule-back; while he was a living directory of the fever holes of West Africa.

Chapter 14 2010

I freight by wagon-road to the Reservation, and then mule-back on up the Klamath and clear in to the forks of Little Salmon.

BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

They bore him with them on mule-back (he unknowing if he were carried or not) for three days, when he came to himself and said, “Where am I?”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

He traversed the mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound at the residence of his “good friends,” the shepherds.

Les Miserables 2008

No roads, no electricity aand only accessible by one hour in a motorboat or 30 miles by mule-back.

Down and out in Yelapa, Mexico: Survivor Puerto Vallarta, Episode 4 2007

And tomorrow I leave for Yelapa, a fishing village only accessible by a one-hour boat ride or 30 miles by mule-back.

Don't drink the water! Survivor Puerto Vallarta, Episode 3 2007

Independently of this, our baggage — some twenty-five packages — was scattered all over the place on mule-back, some coming up from Santa Cruz, some from Laguna, and the smaller ones with us.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

I have but little confidence in their route-surveys: sights are taken from mule-back, and distances are judged by the eye.

The Land of Midian 2003

Moore, who had traveled throughout this region on horse and mule-back for eight weeks, videotaped over 100 peasants.

National Forum Foundation Denton, James S. 1988

Our ascent to the theatre, the day after, proved to be a very steep one, of half an hour on mule-back; in making which, we scared two of those prodigious birds, the _ospreys_, who, having reconnoitred us, forthwith began to wheel in larger and larger sweeps, and at last made off for the sea.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various