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is, to my mind, the aparejo, an arrangement of Mexican origin 

 obtainable for about twenty-five dollars all over x\merica. 



With good aparejos, sweat-pads and saddle-blankets of 

 stout material, and a man who knows how to put them all on, 

 there need be no sore backs, and very few halts to rearrange 

 packs during the longest trip in the roughest country. 



Be careful, however, to see that your aparejo is long 



Cinch him up 



enough for your beast, otherwise you will get him so chafed 

 under the tail as to be unable to work. See, too, that your 

 horses get a rough rub down before being saddled, and that 

 your blankets are ample and well put on. Just as there are 

 many kinds of pack-saddles, so are there many ways of tying 

 on your packs ; but one good way is sufficient, and that known 

 as the diamond hitch has been adopted almost unanimously 

 as the best by the men who live by packing. Here I might 



