44 LOADED PACK-HORSE. Chap; III. 
tion to the huge pile of packages, it is not unusual 
for a little family, consisting of the mother and 
children, to be housed amongst them. On one 
occasion, as two foreigners of my acquaintance were 
out riding in the country, one of their horses shied, 
and, coming in contact with a loaded pack-horse, 
its burden came tumbling off, and was scattered 
over the road. On stopping to render the driver 
some assistance in reloading his horse, my friends 
were horrified to find a whole family scrambling 
about amongst the packages, amongst which they 
had been snugly stowed away. 
Besides the processions, pack-horses, and palan- 
quins, the pedestrians on the Tokaido demand our 
