transport-riding

Before the beginning of this story of the most remarkable episodes in his life, Philip Hadden was engaged for several years in transport-riding -- that is, in carrying goods on ox waggons from Durban or Maritzburg to various points in the interior.

Black Heart and White Heart Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Had it not been for him, we might have been transport-riding in

The People of the Mist Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Now at that time, as you know, I was turning an honest penny transport-riding for the Government, or rather for the military authorities.

Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales Henry Rider Haggard 1890

In fact, one or twice they had been driven to make a request through the child, notably upon an important occasion that had to do with the transport-riding of their furniture, to avoid its being left for a couple of months on the farther side of a flooded river.

Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Before war was declared, or at any rate before the advance began, while it might have been and many thought it would be averted, I was employed transport-riding goods to the little Rorke's Drift Station, that which became so famous afterwards, and incidentally in collecting what information I could of

Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales Henry Rider Haggard 1890