66 HORSE PACKING 



THE ONE-MAN CARGO SLING 



The pac}(s being balanced, to sling the cargo tvith hut one pacJ^er: 



Fig. I. The Packer first loops the lash rope over the 

 sobre-jalma in such a manner that one bight falls 

 on the off side and half on the sobre-jalma 

 forward and the free end comes back across the 

 mule's neck to the near side again. 

 The second and rear bight passes in a like manner 

 across the rear of the sobre-jalma with the free 

 end returning and lying across the mule's rump. 



