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horse-boxes. The drivers will then take off harness, pack it in harness 
wrappers, and label. They will be assisted by spare gunners, syces, 
and jemadars. Horses will be blanketted np with the saddle blankets 
and entrained under the Nos. 1 of sub-divisions. The former will 
superintend the entraining of the officers' horses. 
During this time gun detachments under the covers of sub-divisions 
will entrain carriages on the trucks told off for them. 
Magazines and buckets (which should be filled) will be placed in the 
trucks with the carriages. When the above duties are completed, 
sub-divisions will be marched off to put the harness in the brake-vans, 
and the tentage, baggage, and stores in the covered goods wagons. 
Cooking pots will be placed in the guard's-van or a vacant 3rd class 
compartment, if any. 
Men will then put on accoutrements, take up personal kit, and fall 
in opposite their carriages. 
All natives, except syces, will be marched at once on arrival at 
station under the tindal to the carriages told off for them, taking their 
kits with them. 
Syces and jemadars will be put in horse-wagons after horses are 
entrained, and a lascar or other follower with a filled bucket placed in 
each of the open trucks. 
BRITISH MOUNTAIN BATTERY. 
Instructions for Entraining. 
1. Distribution. —llie guns , ammunition boxes, pioneer pads, spare gun 
wheels , and axle boxes will travel in the powder van (or closed goods 
wagons, if no powder van). The whole of the ordnance saddles and 
harness in the goods wagon next to the powder van. 
The baggage saddles and harness in the front brake. All riding saddles 
(officers' and mounted mens') in the rear brake with officers’ baggage 
and office boxes. 
Kits and tents in the front goods wagon. 
Line gear with the mules. 
2. Preliminary. —The men will parade with great-coats rolled; 
towel and soap in haversacks. 
Each transport driver will be provided with a ticket with strings 
attached, with his name on it—to attach to his paulin strap after he 
has packed his saddles—to assist the non-commissioned officer in giving 
out the saddles in detraining. 
The quartermaster-sergeant, and one man per sub-division, will 
proceed to the station about an hour in advance of the battery, to 
•inspect the trains, open the carriages and wagons, and mark each with 
chalk with the loads they are to contain. 
The same men will be responsible that all carriages, &c., are closed 
after detraining. 
The men will be told off in parties to perform certain duties before 
arrival at the station, as follows :— 
3. Detail of Duties. —One officer to the guns and ammunition. 
One officer to the ordnance mules. 
