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Pack-sad′dle.

One constructed for a pack or sumpter animal. It is provided with hooks, rings, and straps to support baggage, stores, or rations.

The pack-saddle for mountain artillery is adapted for transporting a light howitzer, with its carriage and ammunition, when the country is too rough for the passage of vehicles. For this purpose the front and rear of the saddle are made high, and in the form of arcs of a circle, and are recessed so as to readily receive the howitzer, which is lashed on the [1591] saddle, muzzle to the front. The shafts of the carriage are also lashed on the same saddle, the crossbar resting on the cascabel of the howitzer. The carriage and wheels are carried on a similar saddle upon the back of another mule. The chests containing ammunition are carried by a third animal, one chest being suspended on each side of the saddle. See saddle.

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