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has 36 pack mules attached, carrying 96 rounds per gun. It requires 
at least 48 N.-C.O.’s and men present and effective for its service, and 
for the care of the mules and ammunition in the field, but the number 
attached to the battery ought, if possible, to be 60. Nine native 
muleteers look after the mules, viz. : one to every four who serve with 
the battery on the march and in action. 
The whole battery (mules included), is divided into two divisions, 
each in charge of a Lieutenant, and again into front and reserve . 
The mules are distributed as follows :— 
MULES. 
To bring the howitzers . 4 
,, „ „ beds (two to a load) . 2 
Spare mules for the guns. 4 
For two pair of ammunition boxes per g 
gun carrying (per gun) 48 rounds j. 
For mens’ kits, tents and kettles . 6 
For provision and forage .’. 2 
26 
MULES. 
For 8 laboratory boxes containing specials ^ 
case shot carrying per gun 24 rounds / “* 
For 8 laboratory boxes containing common‘s ^ 
shell carrying per gun 24 rounds ... j 
For cartridges, bursters, etc., for above. 1 
For tents, provisions and forage . 1 
Reserve . 10 
Front . 26 
Total mules ... 36 
Six of the muleteers are attached to the “ front” and three to the 
“ reserve.” 1 2 
The above number of cattle does not admit of any N.-C.O.’s being 
mounted or of any spare mules being assigned for the conveyance of 
the officers’ baggage. 
It is desirable that three N.-C.O.’s should be mounted on mules or 
on the strong mountain ponies of the country, viz. : one to each 
division and one to the reserve. 3 
1 The muleteers alone groomed the mules, hut on parade a proportion were led by the 
detachment. 
2 In the piesent day we find these duties are more efficiently carried out by mounting the 
battery staff, i.e., the sergeant-major, quarter-master-sergeant, farrier and collar-maker, together 
with the two trumpeters. At Home, the mounting of the 2nd trumpeter and collar-maker is un¬ 
necessary in my opinion. 
