Vulgar words in The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries (Page 1)
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Means of Transport.--In order to transport the articles belonging to an expedition across a wild and unknown country, we may estimate as follows:-- Beasts of burthen:-- An ass will not usually care more than about (net weight) 65 lbs.
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Weights carried by Cattle.--The net weights that these different animals carry in trying, long-continued journeys--through stages uncertain in length, sometimes leading to good pasture, sometimes to bad--must not be reckoned higher than the following; and an animal draws about 2 1/2 times as much net weight as he carries:--An ass, 65 lbs.
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Sometimes a horse, sometimes an ass, captivates the fancy of a whole drove of mules, but often an animal nowise akin.
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It appears that when an ass wants to bray he elevates his tail, and, if his tail be weighted down, he has not the heart to bray.
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An ass who was being schooled according to the method of this and the preceding paragraph, both at the same time, would be worthy of an artist's sketch.
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"To carry Ivory on pack-animals, the North African traders use nets, slinging two large teeth on each side of an ass.
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Ass; kicking, to check; braying.
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Donkey (see "Ass").