Going to La Senda

As I was going to St. Ives,

I met a man with seven wives,
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kits -
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?


As I was going to La Senda,
I met a man leading a donkey,
a boy with a machete at his waist,
a woman with a basket on her head,
a teenager in her school uniform,
and a busload of passengers overflowing out the door.
Men, boys, women, teenagers, passengers,
How many were going to La Senda?