 Indians use a medium-sized shaggy- dog, which is their substitute for mules. They drive great trains of them. Each, girt round its breast and haunches, and carrying a load of flour of at least one hundred pounds, travels as fast as his master. It is a...  The Catholic Historical Review - Page 241919Full view - About this book
 | Indians of North America - 1928 - 628 pages
...shaggy dog, which is their substitute for mules. They drive great trains of them. Each, girt round its breast and haunches, and carrying a load of flour...traveling one after another on their journey. In order to lead them the Indian women seize their heads between their knees and thus load them or adjust the load,... | |
 | Alfred Barnaby Thomas - Oklahoma - 1928 - 40 pages
...shaggy dog, which is their substitute for mules. They drive great trains of them. Each, girt round its breast and haunches, and carrying a load of flour...traveling one after another on their journey. In order to lead them the Indian women seize their heads between their knees and thus load them or adjust the load,... | |
 | Anthropology - 1941 - 730 pages
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| Anthropology - 1941 - 740 pages
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 | Blanche Chloe Grant - New Mexico - 2007 - 198 pages
...least one hundred pounds, travels as fast as Ms master. It is a sight 12. Dogs are no longer so used. worth seeing and very laughable to see them traveling,...steady gait as if they had been trained by means of reins."18 By 1630, appeared a similar statement by Benavides who said, "When the Indians go off to... | |
 | American poetry - 1996 - 564 pages
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 | Nels Andrew Nelson Cleven - Latin America - 1927 - 824 pages
...travels as fast as his master. It is a sight worth seeing and very laughable to see them travelling, the ends of the poles dragging on the ground, nearly all of them snarling in their encounters, travelling one after another on their journey.2 In order to load them the Indian women seize their... | |
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