 | sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.) - 1826 - 542 sider
...continued my journey without them. The peons now redoubled their cries, and leaning over the sides « their mules, and picking up stones, they threw them...on, often changing the position of his feet, if he fovna the ground would not bear, until he came to the bad part of the pass, where he again stopped,... | |
 | Georges-Bernard Depping - 1833 - 282 sider
...they threw them at the leading mule, who then commenced his journey over the path. With his nose on the ground, literally smelling his way, he walked...; but the peons again threw stones at him, and he Breached me in safety : several others followed. At last a young mule, carrying a portmanteau, with... | |
 | 1833 - 814 sider
...and of course all the rest stopped also. account, had twice as tiiuch to carry as any of the others. With his nose to the ground, literally smelling his...not bear, until he came to the bad part of the Pass, when he stopped j but the peons threw stones at him, and he continued his path in safety, and several... | |
 | 1833 - 444 sider
...He was the finest mule we had, and on that account, had twice as much to carry as any of the others. With his nose to the ground, literally smelling his...not bear, until he came to the bad part of the Pass, when he stopped; but the peons threw stones at him, and he continued his path in safety, and several... | |
 | Tales - 1834 - 196 sider
...poor mule to urge him forward. At last he ventured; and with his nose to the ground, as if to smell his way, he walked gently on, often changing the position of his feet, when the ground seemed unsafe, till he came to the worst part of the pass : here he stopped again ;... | |
 | 1835 - 430 sider
...mule we had, and, on that account, had twice as much to carry as any of the others. With his позе to the ground, literally smelling his way, he walked gently on, often changing the position of 1m feet, if he found the ground would not bear, until he came to the bad part of the Pass, when he... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 sider
...the path. With his nose down to the ground, literally smelling his way, he walked gently on, after changing the position of his feet, if he found the ground would not bear, until he came to the had part of the pass, where he again stopped ; and tUen I certainly began to look with great anxiety... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 sider
...was the finest mule we had, and, on that account, had twice (W much to carry as any of the others. With his nose to the ground, literally smelling his...he walked gently on, often changing the position of hisfeet, if he found thegronnd would not bear, until he came to the bad part of the Pass, when he stopped... | |
 | 1842 - 414 sider
...He was the finest mule we had, and on that account, had twice as much to carry as any of the others. With his nose to the ground, literally smelling his...found the ground would not bear, until he came to the had part of the Pass, when he stopped ; hut the poens threw stones at him, and he continued his path... | |
 | John Comly - 1849 - 234 sider
...the others. With his nose to the ground, he seemed to be smelling his •way, and then walked slowly on ; often changing the position of his feet, if he...found the ground would not bear, until he came to the worst part of the pass, when he stopped. But the drivers threw stones at him, and he moved along the... | |
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He was the finest mule we had, and, on that account, had twice as much to carry as any of the others. With his nose to the ground, literally smelling his way, he walked gently on, often changing the position of his feet, if he found the ground would not... 
