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smugglers, who had done me some favours [Jioni 

 soil qui vial y pense), camped with his mule train in 

 the mountains at a place where I was ' nooning.' 

 Well, Mexicans are conceded to be good packers, 

 and especially the mountain smugglers, but they use 

 a more complicated tie than the ' diamond,' so I 

 taught it him. From that day till smuggling was 

 put an end to by an efficient force of frontier 

 gendarmes, he used no other, and showed it to many 

 of his confreres, the consequence being that to-day 

 it is known in the neighbouring Mexican villages as 

 the ' nudo contrabandist 0.' 



" As some months ago I saw in a San Francisco 

 paper what I considered an unsuccessful attempt to 

 explain it, I hope that my above attempt may be 

 more explicit. 



"Albert H. Leith. 



" El Alamo, Chihuahua, Mexico, 

 "Dec. 28, 1894." 



We wrote to Mr. Leith, asking some questions 

 about the hitch, and when replying, he was kind 

 enough to give the following useful hints regarding 

 the making of an improvised pad or pack-saddle : — 



"Half fill two large sacks with grass or straw ; 

 place the upper empty parts overlapping each other, 

 and then sew them together." 



We have two more " Regulations " to mention, 

 and, though put down late, they are by no means 

 the least important. One is the subscription to the 

 Hounds we hunt with. Every man who can afford 

 to hunt at all, can afford to give a subscription of 



