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SPECIAL AMMUNITION BOX. 
country deal, with fittings of sissoo. The maximum load for a camel 
in these operations being fixed at four maunds (320 lbs.), the number of 
rounds to be carried in each box was limited in accordance therewith. 
The weight of the box empty is 54 lbs. 
h ,/ full is 153 lbs. 
This limit permits nine rounds per box only, and consequently 72 
boxes are required per battery, making 36 camel loads. 
The sketch accompanying shows the internal arrangements and 
fittings, and also the measurements. The box is slung across the 
ordinary pack saddle of the camel by two chains with hooks. The 
chains are attached to iron bands passing round the box. The lid is 
secured with ordinary padlocks, and the box is fitted with rope handles 
for convenience of lifting. 
Each box was packed with seven shrapnel and two common shell. 
The 72 boxes of a battery were divided into four portions of 18 each. 
The first 18 were marked “No. 1 boxes,” the second 18 “No. 2,” and 
so on. No. 1 boxes contained each ten 5-secs, fuzes; No. 2 boxes 
each ten 9-secs, fuzes; No. 3 boxes five 9-secs, and five 5-secs, fuzes, 
and also the friction tubes ; No. 4 boxes ten 9-secs, and the percussion 
fuzes. The above details were arranged by the field park officers, but, 
as before stated, the boxes were never actually tried on service. 
