Their mode of transport is the pack-mule, and the "carreta" drawn by mules or oxen. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
'carreta' means a Spanish dray-cart, and that 'carita,' 'my dear,' was probably meant. ❋ Clement King Shorter (1891)
Sometimes we heard the howl of coyotes and the noise of other wild animals, and then none of the children were allowed to leave the carreta. ❋ Helen Elliott Bandini (N/A)
The great piles of soiled linen were fastened on the backs of horses led by other servants, while the girls and women who were to do the washing trooped along by the side of the carreta. ❋ Helen Elliott Bandini (N/A)
As the sound drew nearer and became shriller, we would put our fingers in our ears to muffle the dismal tones, which we knew were only the creakings of the two wooden wheels of some Mexican _carreta_, laboriously bringing passengers to town, or perhaps a cruder one carrying hides to the _embarcadero_, or possibly supplies to adjacent _ranchos_. ❋ Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (N/A)
All who could, traveled on horseback; while the mother of the family, the children, and old people used the clumsy carreta with its squeaking wheels. ❋ Helen Elliott Bandini (N/A)
The steps of the carreta were so low that we could climb in or out without stopping the oxen. ❋ Helen Elliott Bandini (N/A)
The _carreta_ which we met was drawn by two yokes of oxen, driven by an Indian vaquero, mounted on ❋ Edwin Bryant (N/A)
We met this morning a Californian _carreta_, or travelling-cart, freighted with women and children, bound on a pleasure excursion. ❋ Edwin Bryant (N/A)
After a happy day in the woods came "the late return at twilight, when the younger children were all asleep in the slow carreta and the Indians were singing hymns as they drove the linen-laden horses down the dusky ravines." ❋ Helen Elliott Bandini (N/A)
After a nine days 'forced march, made chiefly by night, the Mexicans brought their crazy old carreta safely into the post. ❋ Edgar Beecher Bronson (N/A)
The background was of grass-green silk, embroidered over the entire field with brightest red and yellow, pink and white roses, with intertwining leaves and stems, making the old _carreta_ appear to be a real rose-bower blooming along the King's Highway. ❋ Various (N/A)
A rude hammock was improvised and slung beneath the canvas cover of the carreta, and, placed within it, Loving was made as comfortable as possible. ❋ Edgar Beecher Bronson (N/A)
He did not wish to enter the settlement without one, and when the matter was explained to Mrs. Bandini, who was journeying in a carreta with her maids and children, she offered to supply the need. ❋ Helen Elliott Bandini (N/A)
He shuffled off to order refreshments, and returned in time to disburden the carreta of Doña Ignacia -- no mean feat -- volubly delighted in the visit and the gossip it portended. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Concha was to return as she had come, beside the carreta of her mother, and as Rezánov mounted his horse she stood staring with unseeing eyes on the brilliant, animated scene. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Doña Ignacia jolted behind in her carreta, a low and clumsy vehicle, on solid wheels and springless, drawn by oxen, and driven by a stable-boy on a mustang. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Further on Ignacio shouted again to pass a carreta, a long wooden box on two high wheels, with the door at the back swinging open. ❋ Unknown (1904)
From Tlaxiaco to Teposcolula, there was a cart-road, though it was possible that no _carreta_ ever passed over it. ❋ Frederick Starr (1895)
The _carreta_ in which we were travelling was here far ahead, and after we had rested half-an-hour or more, Manuel, hot and perspiring, appeared, and reported that the disabled cart had broken down again, and that the other two were delayed by a sick animal. ❋ Frederick Starr (1895)
