-----------------------+---------------------------------- Gun-mule. | Carriage-mule. -----------------------+---------------------------------- Saddle 69 lbs.|Saddle 69 lbs. Gun 218 " |Carriage 205 " --------| -------- 287 " | 274 " -----------------------+---------------------------------- Wheel-mule. | Ammunition-mule. -----------------------+---------------------------------- Saddle 60 lbs.|Saddle 58 lbs. Wheels 123 " |Two chests with 8 rounds Shafts, etc. 22 " | each 280 " --------| ------- 205 " | 338 " -----------------------+---------------------------------- CHAPTER II. The Pack-train. How Packed. PACK-TRAINS. Gen. Holabird says: A pack-mule carries on an average 200 pounds. Allow one pack-mule to six or seven men for detachments out scouting from five to eight days; twelve mules to two officers and sixty or seventy men for six days; eight mules to one officer and fifty men of cavalry for six days. The above allowance does not contemplate the carrying of forage. Cavalry drill-regulations state: With fifty packs there should be twelve packers. Each troop should have four mess-boxes, seven-eighths inch lumber, dovetailed, 11 inches by 18 inches by 26 inches, and, when packed in pack-cover, without lids. In camp or garrison, logs of wood, 26 inches long, and sacks of corn, double-sacked and lashed to avoid breaking sacks, having the weight it is intended the mule should carry, are kept on hand for drill purposes. Each pack should be provided with two coils of three-eighths inch rope, 18 to 28 feet long, for lashing packs. The pack-saddle consists of the _saddle proper_; two _pads_; _crupper_; _corona_; _manta_ or _pack-cover_; two pieces of canvas, each 84 inches by 22 inches, stitched together on the long edges; _halter_ and _strap_; _canvas cincha_, 10 inches wide; sling-rope, half-inch best hand-laid manilla whale-line, 20 to 32 feet long; and _leather cincha_, with _lash-rope_, five-eighths inch whale-line 42 feet long. There should be one _blind_ for every five packs. The size of rope is given by the measurement of its diameter. A "full-rigged" saddle has _sling-straps_ and _cargo-cincha_; the sling and lash ropes are then dispensed with. While saddling, loading, or readjusting the packs, the animals should be blinded. The mules should be trained to stand perfectly quiet while the blind is on; they should never be led or forced to move without first removing the blind. TO FIT THE SADDLE.