152 EQUIPMENT OF HORSEMEN 



traders, the Rocky Mountain outlaws, the 

 sheriffs and marshals and Mounted PoUce. 

 The equipment is mainly of Spanish origin, and 

 named with Spanish words. 



II. EQUIPMENT OF HORSEMEN. 



The healthfulness of a horseman's Ufe has 

 developed to the fullest extent his natural 

 passions both in love and war, and it is a notable 

 fact that the males of nearly all species who 

 love and defend their mates go very bravely 

 dressed. So in all ages both military and 

 civilian horsemen have worn an honest 

 bravery and gallantry of equipment suited for 

 loving and fighting, for quests of bold adven- 

 ture and of conquest. Much that in a clerk or 

 craftsman would be grotesque is seemly for 

 mounted men. 



The Sweat Pad. In Queensland, Argen- 

 tino and pack train practice, it is usual to lay 

 on the horse's back a soft sugar sack, a crash 

 towel or other fabric not likely to slip or crinkle. 

 This is called the sweat pad. Its first purpose 

 is to receive the special marks made by any 

 turning or chafing of the horse's hair which may 

 be the beginnings of a gall. Its second purpose 

 is to take the sweat, hair, scurf, grease and dirt 

 which would not be noticed on a dark blanket, 

 but is easily seen and rubbed or w^ashed out of a 



