This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...It is amusing to see the people bringing worn-out, blind, lame, and sore-backed mules, and try to hide their defects, and pass them off as sound ones--which, of course, they always fail in doing. As soon as a sufficient number of mules are passed--they are marked on the hind-quarters with a crown, burnt in by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...It is amusing to see the people bringing worn-out, blind, lame, and sore-backed mules, and try to hide their defects, and pass them off as sound ones--which, of course, they always fail in doing. As soon as a sufficient number of mules are passed--they are marked on the hind-quarters with a crown, burnt in by a hot iron. As soon as it is applied, they kick most vigorously, but having been previously hobbled, and being held during the operation by three or four Turkish soldiers, their resistance is ineffectual. One mule, directly he felt the iron, kicked so judiciously, that he knocked over the operator, who fell with his stern upon the hot crown, to the great delight of the bystanders--who all hoped he would bear away his own mark. 202 MULETEERS. The Candian mules are small but very well-shaped; and many of them are excellent beasts to ride. Those taken to Balaklava by the Trent turned out very well, and did good service in the Land Transport Corps, as I was afterwards informed by one of the principal officers--for I always made a point of enquiring about them. A number of native muleteers were also taken--but I question whether they answered so well. The treatment they would meet with, was what they were unaccustomed to; and being engaged at low wages, they would be dissatisfied at finding men from other parts of their country, doing the same work, and drawing greater pay than themselves. 17th.--The French Consul came out to dine. He had a great grievance--which was apparent in his thoughts--for he recurred to it at every opportunity. It was that there were two French transport brigs lying in Sudha Bay, bound for the Crimea. They had been four and a half months from Marseilles, and some time at anchor here; and he could not get them to put to...
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