"Yes, he felt the heat," he said, as he passed the time of day with other men going by with packs, pack-horses, or draught-dogs, cursing at the trail and at the Government that taxed the miners so cruelly and then did nothing for them, not even making a decent highway to the Dominion's source of revenue.

Three of us worked on the buildings, and the rest formed a pack train carrying all sorts of things from the shore to the valley.

They are always accompanied by the men, who stride on, unburdened and erect, a little in advance, kindly stooping at difficult places to pile stepping-stones for their patient, pack-animal wives, just as they would prepare the way for their ponies.

We looked through the house and found their saddles, pack-saddles, blankets, overcoats, lariats and two Henry rifles, which we took possession of.

They were being driven by seven or eight mounted men, wearing sombreros, and dressed in buckskin, with their lariats dangling from their saddles, and they were followed by two or three pack-mules or horses.

In that case, he will snap it like a pack-thread.

Though much too small to be discernible by the naked eye, they occurred in such countless myriads as to stain the berg and the pack ice wherever they were washed by the swell of the sea; and, when enclosed in the congealing surface of the water, they imparted to the brash and pancake ice a pale ochreous colour.

We're a pack o' fools.

One of their pack ponies had been lost, having slipped and fallen over a precipice many hundreds of feet deep, and they had lost a day making a long detour to reach the spot where he fell, in order to recover the articles he had carried.

As early as 100 years before the birth of Christ, the Nana Pass was one of the chief highways of trade between Aparantaka or the Northern Konkan and the Deccan; and although the steep and slippery nature of the ascent must have prevented cart-traffic, the number of pack-bullocks and ponies that were annually driven upwards towards the cooler atmosphere and richer soil of Junner must have been considerable.

Engage the snap hook on the pack suspenders in the lower suspension rings.

Here we were to begin our trip overland, on pack-mules and pack-oxen, scores of which had been gathered to meet us.

"I liked stopping with aunt at Ellton," said the little fellow to himself, sadly, "and I should like to go again; but I should like to be fetched home next time, for old David is so cross every time I move, and" "Look here, young fellow," growled the man, half turning in his saddle; "if you don't sit still I'll get one of the pack ropes and tie you on, like a sack.

I've got a lot of business on to-day, and we'll have to rouse Curly Roper out of bed to buy his pack outfit.

"I rather reckon I owe you my lifeand something else besides"the Colonel laid one hand on the thin shoulder where the pack-strap pressed, and closed the other hand tight over his pardner's right"and I hadn't meant even to thank you neither.

"Racey hasn't got the guts to pick a fuss with a pack rat.

"Mebbe you want a pack-hoss.

The life of the gate was already at full tide of sound and colour, braying, gargling, quarrellingnomads wading in their flocks, Djlass countrymen, Singalese soldiers, Jewish pack-peddlers, Bedouin women bent double under their stacks of desert fire-grass streaming inward, dust white, dust yellow, and all red in the dawn under the red wall.

1 pack carrier (except individually mounted men).

Next morning they were up and away early, and reached the foot of the mountain (Mount York) at 9 a.m., having had to carry the pack-loads down most of the way themselves, as it was too steep for laden horses to preserve their balance with safety.

Slowly he continued along the road until he came to where a narrow pack-trail swung north and east through the thick spruce and balsam in the direction of Loon Lake.

Pack o'good nights.

He had an army of two thousand gunmen, besides pack-horsemen and men to tend the drove of bullocks, together with a few Catawba Indians,a total of twenty-four hundred.

Morton's inquiries respecting Indian craniaNecessity of one's writing his name plainMichigan Gazetteer in preparationAttempt to make the Indian a political pack-horseReturn to the Agency of MichilimackinackIndian skulls phrenologically examinedJ. Toulmin SmithCherokee questionTrip to Grand RiverTreaty and annuity paymentsThe department accused of injustice to the Indians.

A wheel with a ton weight on the top of it in the waggons of South Africa will jolt for thousands of miles over stony, roadless country without suffering harm; a keg of water may be strapped on the back of a pack-ox or a mule, and be kicked off and trampled on, and be otherwise misused for years, without giving way.