What is "burros"

Usage examples of "burros".

And this reminds me, boys, we'll have to go Out to a few villages near by to buy burros, which we need for carrying our packs and for other services at the camp.

They had no idea how to keep the burros at the camp during the night, how to pack them the right way, or how to make them go over the rocky paths across the high mountains, where often the boys themselves could not get hold with their feet.

Often at night when they were so tired that they could sleep like blocks they had to get up and search for the burros that had gone astray.

When, in the beginning, they had found that there was no water for washing the dirt, and that the water was so far down, it was proposed that the diggings should be carried by the burros down to the brook to be washed there.

On the other hand, if he meets one of us with the burros carrying the water up, it will be clear that the water is meant for the camp, for cooking, washing, and cleaning the hides.

When bringing up water for the washings, the passes had to be opened, but they were closed as soon as the burros had passed.

Even if they don't know that we've got good pay with us, they might rob us just for our burros and hides and, what is of more worth to them, for our shotguns, tools, clothes.

If I'd been all by myself, I could have thrown him off the trail easily, but with three burros on your hands it couldn't be done.

After this they turned their heads and brayed with all their might to others of their kind in the pasture where the burros were kept.

The burros were taken from their hiding-place and led down to be watered and then left to return to pasture.

Pick-axes, spades, water, dirt, rocks, burros, food, gold, clothing, the parts of their primitive machinery, and all details of their work were referred to by signals, often merely single letters, which only they themselves understood.

The burros have quite a load, and part of the packs we have to carry on our own backs, which will be hard enough on us when we're making the steep trails.

Upon reaching the station they would sell the burros, the tools, and even the hides, which would give them more than sufficient money to buy second-class railroad tickets to the port.

Packtrains of burros or mules passing through the villages on the slopes of the Sierra Madre are no novelty.

While they had to drive his burros, to load and unload his packs, and to take care of all his belongings, he was most probably now enjoying himself, with a pretty Indian hussy sitting on his knees and another brown wench hanging on his neck and before him a swell meal of roast turkey and a bottle of tequila.