sumpter

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I happened to finish first, and, hearing the horses' hoofs, went out and watched the lads who were to be our guides fastening the baggage on the sumpter beasts.

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John

Then I led over the horses, beginning with the four sumpter beasts.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.

She had also two sumpter mules richly caparisoned, and carrying a fine bed and all the necessary implements for cooking.

From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

All our gallant soldiers had made up their lances, fusils, sabres, bows and arrows, into bundles, which were packed upon their sumpter animals. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis

As one of the sumpter cattle that carried his tent had fallen into a river, Themistokles's servants hung up the rich hangings, which were dripping with wet, in order to dry them.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey