Elephants.—They are expensive and delicate, but excellent beasts of burden, in rainy tropical countries.
Oxen require less tending than any other beasts of burden.
She could hear him behind her panting like a tired beast of burden.
To my astonishment, we met several trains of camels, and I learnt afterwards, that these animals were used as beasts of burden by the Kurds, as well as the Arabs.