Sedan Chair Carrier
A terrible human job was that of the Sedan Chair Carrier. Two people would have to carry a person using their hands and feet as illustrated below. Often the person would be carried for many miles and they all would have to face muggins and the hardships of the elements.
Sedan Chair Carrier (Hover)
I have never really thought about this actually being a job. It just seems so much like slavery to me in a way. That is not actually the case I guess but I just think of the pharaohs in egypt in all of the old stories and the guys that carried them around.
Offtopic but, For some reason I feel better about my job now. |
I saw a documentary about this and the efforts people in those times had to go through to ply this trade and it was almost unbelievable. Could you imagine if the person was a rich Lord or Dutchess that weighed many stone? Something similar to this can be seen in the Asian front save that it it is done with either a hand cart or bicycle.