Packing and portaging . ngle dia-mond, and we shall pass them over as they arescarcely resorted to In ordinary pack work. (4) The one-man or lifting hitch. (5) The stirrup hitch, to be used when thepacker has rope but no cinch. (6) The saddle hitch, employed in slingingloads upon an ordinary riding saddle. (7) The hitch for packing a sick or injuredman. THE CROSSTREE HITCH This hitch was introduced into the North-west by the early fur traders and adopted bythe Indians. Among Indians, women are thelaborers, and the crosstree hitch being the hitchalmost exclusively employed by the squaws waspres
Packing and portaging . ngle dia-mond, and we shall pass them over as they arescarcely resorted to In ordinary pack work. (4) The one-man or lifting hitch. (5) The stirrup hitch, to be used when thepacker has rope but no cinch. (6) The saddle hitch, employed in slingingloads upon an ordinary riding saddle. (7) The hitch for packing a sick or injuredman. THE CROSSTREE HITCH This hitch was introduced into the North-west by the early fur traders and adopted bythe Indians. Among Indians, women are thelaborers, and the crosstree hitch being the hitchalmost exclusively employed by the squaws waspresently dubbed by white men the squawhitch. It is a hitch very generally used byprospectors, and for this reason is known insome localities as the * prospectors other sections of the West, where sheepherders commonly use it, it is locally calledthe sheep herders hitch. It is a hitch SOME PRACTICAL HITCHES 79 easily thrown by one man, holds well, and Istherefore a favorite. With lash rope attached to cinch, take a. Squaw or Crosstree Hitch(Fig. I.) Rope engaged on cinch hook and bight of roperunning from rear forward under standing rope.
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