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laid down. The shells are carried on wooden boxes which pull out. 
On the foot-board is a box for spare traces and similar stores. 
Thirty-four rounds are carried per gun and 94 per wagon. 
The gun and limber packed (with five men) weighs 1910 kilos. (394 
ewt.), the wagon (with three) 2202 kilos. (45 ewt.), six horses to guns 
and wagons and a mounted N.-C.O. to each two guns. 
The barrack-rooms are airy and very clean and tidy. The bed- 
steads consist of light iron frames and wood-bottom boards—good 
thick palliasses and white sheets and blankets. 
Both gunners and drivers wear breeches and boots, the latter being 
very well made and light. 
The mounted N.-C.0.’s have cavalry swords and revolvers, all others 
a short straight sword—a few rifles are carried for escort or guard 
duty. 
The officers wear dark-brown cord breeches, black boots, a plain blue 
tunic not unlike our own—the only ornamentation being red cuffs, a 
red patch on either side of the collar on which are the badges of rank, 
viz.: one, two or three small gold stars, a thin gold. shoulder cord on 
the left side only, gold laced belts and slings and a peaked cap laced 
according to rank. The general effect is very neat and smart, and far 
more inexpensive than with us—a tunic only costing £3! 
The horses, as a rule, were lower and lighter than our own, but 
showed little signs of the hard work they had lately done, for the 
batteries had just returned from two months’ manceuyres over a yery 
rough country during the hottest time in the year, still there were no 
signs of galls of any sort; this is probably due to a certain extent 
to the excellent system of harnessing which, by-the-bye, has been 
selected by the Shah of Persia as a pattern for his own—that it is very 
light and still most durable there seems to be no doubt, and it is 
naturally well fitted for hot climates. 
The men were sturdy and well built and seemed cheerful and willing 
—drawn as they are from various districts, often speaking only their 
own dialects (six or seven in a battery), the officers have to do a great 
deal through the better educated N.-C.0.’s. 
Service in the artillery is very popular and both officers and men 
are proud of the arm to which they belong. 
The officers are good riders and good whips—both of which accom- 
plishments they acquire under most favourable conditions on first 
joining, as horses, hounds and brakes are kept up for this purpose by 
Government at the school of instruction for the mounted branches. 
