CROSS-TREE HITCH 



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Fig. 7. 



Fig. 7. The packer now cinches the hitch in the usual 

 manner, following the slack in the original turns 

 and taking it in. 



When it has been taken (up to the point shown in 

 Fig. 6) he passes with the rope to the off side in 

 rear of the mule, bringing the rope once more 

 down around the rear of the off pack and forward 

 under the sobre-jalma and outside the cincha, and 

 makes fast as usual. 



The position of the lash rope is now as shown in 

 Fi§.7, 



