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For enlisted men the body is made from No. 5 olive-drab sash cord 

 with sliding loop of leather covered with thread to match. The ends 

 are fastened to a f-inch brown japanned bag snap hook by a russet 

 leather chape, to wliich they are strongly stitched. 



HAVERSACK, MODEL OF 1908. 

 (Plate XII.) 



The parts are — 

 1 back. 

 1 reinforce. 

 1 front pouch. 

 1 front pouch bottom. 

 1 front pouch flap. 

 1 rear pouch. 

 1 rear pouch bottom. 



1 salt bag. 



2 sugar and coffee bags. 

 2 knife and fork pockets. 

 1 knife scabbard. 



1 fork scabbard. 

 1 fastening strap. 



1 buckle chape. 



2 hook chapes. 



2 haversack snap hooks. 



The back is made from No. 4 olive-drab cotton duck. The rein- 

 force, rear pouch, rear pouch bottom, front pouch, front pouch bot- 

 tom, front pouch flap, and knife and fork pockets are made from 

 No. 9 duck. The loiife and fork scabbards are from scrap leather; 

 the salt bag and sugar and coffee bags from 8-ounce white cotton 

 drill, and the fastening strap, buckle, and hook chapes of olive-drab 

 webbing. 



The top edges of both pouches and the lower edge of the front 

 pouch flap are bound with 1-inch olive-drab cotton webbing, and the 

 flap is held down by two soft rawliide thongs. 



The front pouch and bottom are sewn together and seam felled, 

 and with fastening strap and front pouch flap is stitched to the 

 reinforce, the latter being then stitched with a felled seam across the 

 wider portion of back, so that the top of the haversack is covered 

 with two tliicknesses of duck, after which the edges are bound with 

 1-inch ohve-drab cotton webbing extending an inch beyond seam. 



The hook chapes are sewn on outside of back, the two haversack 

 snap hooks being for attachment to rifle cartridge belt. 



The rear pouch bottom, with buckle chape antl knife pockets se%\Ti 

 in place, is stitched to rear pouch and seam felled after both edges of 

 bottom have been bound with tape. These form a pouch with knife 



