28 THE PACK-SADDLE. 



A comfortable English saddle, and well-fit- 

 ting horse-gear, is absolutely necessary to a 

 traveller and sportsman ; and the utmost 

 care should be taken that the former is well 

 stuffed, so as not to gall the horse's back, as 

 a quarter of an hour's hard riding on a badly 

 fitting saddle may break the skin, and give a 

 horse a sore back that will take several days to 

 heal. 



, p , There are no articles in a traveller's 



equipment to which more attention 

 ought to be paid than to the pack-saddles for 

 baggage-animals. If they do not fit the horse, 

 mule, or bullock properly, a single day's march 

 will, in all probability, render the animal unser- 

 viceable. 



As no pack-saddle I have seen in any army 

 seemed thoroughly to answer its purpose under 

 all situations, I set to work and devised one after 

 my own fashion, which I consider has many 



