From the accounts rendered, old Mary did not lack for water-Carriers for months after that.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
There is the quiet of the mountains; only slightly broken at intervals of an hour or so when a caravan passes, but sometimes these pass perfectly silently without stopping; barefooted Carriers with their merchandise slung across the shoulder on bamboos, and sometimes with ponies, and bells jingling cheerily.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Just now, one has come from the China frontier, some ten Carriers wearing pointed straw hats several feet wide.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch