pack-saddle

Every back had become a pack-saddle, and the strap-galls were beginning to form.

CHAPTER I 2010

Hence the idea of the golden age; of the egg pierced by Arimanes; of the serpent who stole from the ass the recipe for obtaining a happy and immortal life, which the man had placed upon his pack-saddle; of the conflict between Typhon and Osiris, and between

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

One plug had about as much action as a jackass with a pack-saddle; another was club-footed; and a third who had to take the place of one that was killed, was as good as dead, and hamstrung into the bargain.

Satyricon 2007

We had to leave behind the pack-saddle, bags, and all other things we could not carry with us on our riding-horses.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

Eventually I mounted a pack-saddle, and we crossed a spur of

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

The pack-saddle is composed of two packs of straw eight inches thick, faced with red, and connected before and behind by strong oak arches gaily painted or lacquered.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

I have not seen one yet without a sore back, produced by the harsh pack-saddle rubbing up and down the spine, as the loaded animals are driven at a run.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

But it is not pleasant, even in the prettiest country, to cling on to a pack-saddle with a saturated quilt below you and the water slowly soaking down through your wet clothes into your boots, knowing all the time that when you halt you must sleep on a wet bed, and change into damp clothes, and put on the wet ones again the next morning.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

There were hundreds of horses, wonderful-looking animals in bravery of scarlet cloth and lacquer and fringed nets of leather, and many straw wisps and ropes, with Gothic roofs for saddles, and dependent panniers on each side, carrying two grave and stately-looking children in each, and sometimes a father or a fifth child on the top of the pack-saddle.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

Satsuporo doctor was there, who was travelling for two hundred miles astride on a pack-saddle, with rope-loops for stirrups.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004