THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
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No. 1, spare tube-pocket and lanyard, 
No. 3, spare skein, Hambro’ line, 
No. 4, spare arms for cradle, 
No. 5, measuring line for 50 yards,^ 
No. 6, spare tube-pocket and lanyard, 
A small oil-can was fitted for each box. 
On tbe spare cradle carried in No. 4 subdivision a similar box is placed, 
containing, — 
Quadrant, spirit-level, funnel, two gauges. 
Store boxes with Gun . 
Near box :—1 tube-pocket with 50 tubes, straps for do. detached, 1 lanyard, 
50 tubes in case. 
Off box: —Tangent sight, 1 set bits, 2 hand-borers, 2 shell keys, 1 screw-wrench 
for fore sights. 
In addition, a set of entrenching tools,— 
1 axe, felling, 1 do. pick, 1 shovel, 1 bill-hook, 1 reaping-hook, weighing, with 
the board to which they are attached, about 28 lbs., are carried with each sub¬ 
division on the fourth ammunition mule. 
Two similar sets of entrenching tools, and four sets with pickaxe, shovel, 
bill-hook, and reaping-hook are carried on six of the double-shell loads of 
the reserve. 
The present system of draught is faulty: though on more than one 
occasion the guns were dismounted and put in draught, this could not be 
done in travelling down hill, and it becomes a question, whether if the 
loads are lightened, as they have been for this expedition, the guns would 
ever be placed in draught in a mountainous country; this bears on the 
question of superseding wheel-carriages by mortar-beds, when heavy pro¬ 
jectiles are fired from very light pieces in mountain artillery. 
Old oars procured from the navy were cut up, the wood being carried 
to replace the shafts in case of injury. 
The Otago saddles supplied for the battery were excellent. 
Sixty additional ones were obtained from the Land Transport Corps to 
complete the equipment. The stuffing of the pads with these, as with all 
those first received by the land transport, had not been properly tested, the 
cause of many mules being disabled during the expedition by sores on the 
ribs. Every opportunity was taken of greasing the saddles, &c. and of 
removing the hair from the pads, but with constant marching this was done 
with difficulty. 
A full report on the pack-saddles employed with the force will be made 
by a committee assembled in Abyssinia for that purpose. 
To lighten the ammunition loads carried on three mules of each sub¬ 
division, one common shell was removed from each box; to replace the 
above, sixteen common shell were carried upon a fourth ammunition mule 
in packing cases, making the number of rounds per subdivision 64. 
Eour rockets were removed from each of the panniers (leather) carried by 
the rocket mules, and 80 rockets w r ere carried in the first reserve. 
A reserve of 120 double shell was considered necessary to meet the 
possibility of a regular bombardment; the double shell were filled with 
No. 3 rifle powder procured from the navy. 
* This measuring line was used in measuring abase with a sliding rule, invented by Lieut; Nolan* 
fbr measuring distance, which proved very useful; 
