The effect of all this was soothing and the boys left the camp, to order some of their Packmen to bring home the provisions, with light hearts.
"The Boy Aviators in Africa"
Captain Wilbur Lawton
Some, of small means, had commenced modestly with a shoulder-bundle and went through the new land, as peddlers and Packmen in older lands had done before them.
"The Settler and the Savage"
R.M. Ballantyne
As from time to time we exchanged greetings with them, we were struck with their comely health and blithe ways-particularly with their fine teeth, as they laughed us the time of day, or stopped their wagons to gossip a moment with the two outlandish Packmen-the very teeth one would expect in an apple-country.
"October Vagabonds"
Richard Le Gallienne