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and breeching. The bridles and bits were very heavy, the stirrups 

 of brass and shaped hke a Turkish shpper. The men, when riding, 

 wear enormous spurs and a kind of leggings called " zamorras," 

 something like the baggy rubber leggings used among us. They 

 are made of canvas, rubber-cloth, or of leather, and are buckled 

 together at the waist, thus forming a pair of trousers without a 

 seat. Some that I saw were made of puma-skins. They are so 

 voluminous that they completely cover the rider's feet, and when 

 he dismounts they look like an awkward skirt and interfere with 



ADJUSTINC; LOAD ON PACK-MULE. 



his walking. (See page 97.) For the first two miles the road, 

 ascending slowly, ran along the river to the south over what was 

 once the besinninof of a railroad. The embankments had washed 

 away in many places, the cuts had caved in, and at one spot we 



