Grooms in light blue shirts bustled about, carrying buckets and tack, pushing barrows of straw, bales of hay, sacks of feed.

They had carried boxes and bales, unbolted machinery and guns.

Working with other women and the older children, she was carrying bales into the delves for counting when she stopped suddenly, her eyes widening.

Then they ran out the gangway and began to carry boxes and bales down to the wharf.

The others carried bales and boxes, and I could see no other people except the handlers topside.

The first goods train carried 135 sacks and bales of American cotton, 200 barrels of flour, 34 sacks of malt and 63 sacks of oatmeal.

Children carrying huge bales of cotton scurried past, their backs bent double like those of old men.

They were trapped and arrested after members of the gang had spent hours carrying large bales of cocaine along a treacherous cliff-top path to their destination.

But the main delivery method is still the oldest, human mules carrying 40lb hessian wrapped bales of marijuana for payment of as little as $500 per trip.

Along with ammonium nitrate-a very common cargo on the high seas-it was carrying small arms ammunition, machinery, and bales of sisal twine on the deck.