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in camp and if possible when wet at unpacking should 

 be dried out before the campfire at night. 



When laying out your packs care must be used to 

 have the two sides as nearly equal in weight as possible. 

 If you use kyaks take along plenty of .gunny-sacks with 

 which to wrap things and keep them from rattling. Of 

 all disorderly affairs a kyak full of cooking and eating 

 utensils all rattling and jingling like a tin pedder's 

 wagon is the worst. Besides it is apt to wear holes in 

 the kyaks and break some of the contents. I have seen 

 both Gen. George Cook and Gen. Mackenzie, two of the 

 old-time Indian fighters of the army, stop 'a pack train 

 passing in review before them, as it left camp for the 

 field on an Indian scout, and make the packers pull a 

 certain mule out of the train, unload a noisy pack and 

 remedy the trouble right there before them, with pos- 

 sibly 250 cavalry men and the packers of a 100-mule pack 

 train "guying" the unlucky packer as they rode past. 



