sumpter

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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

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

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

XII Many a well-laden sumpter before them cross'd the Rhine, That for the fellow-hunters carried bread and wine.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

They had three saddle-horses and four sumpter mules.

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

They had with them a sumpter horse, whilst a third, which was evidently intended for my prisoner, was held by a groom.

From Orrain A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S.