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Later, schooners, thirty or forty of them, gathered the hunters at some main fur post, stowed the light skin kyacks in piles on the decks, and carried the Aleuts to the otter grounds.
The quantity is small but it is sweet and pure. We camp here; elevation six thousand one hundred feet. "The canyon walls are steep and the bottom narrow. We are in a heap together, rolls of bedding, camp-fire, burros, horses, mules, men, kyacks containing food, saddles and packs, myself, etc., all in a very small space. The Charm of the North Side.
It seemed strange to me that they should be hungry in a country swarming with reindeer, but our people explained to me that in winter it is almost impossible to get near enough to reindeer; to kill them with arrows, which are their only weapons. In summer they kill a few reindeer from their kyacks, or skin canoes, while crossing the big lakes on their migrations.
The men crowded in and gazed curiously at the kyacks then at Sundown. Shoop strode forward. "The game's up, Sun. We want the Mexican." "This is me ranch," said Sundown. "I got the papers here. You fellas is sure welcome only they ain't goin' to be no shootin' or such-like. I ain't joshin' this time." A voice broke the succeeding silence. "If the Mexican is in there, we want him that's all."
There were schools advocating heatedly the merits respectively of the single or double cinch, of the Dutch oven or the reflector, of rawhide or canvas kyacks, of sleeping bags or blankets. Each man had invented some little kink of his own without which he could not possibly exist.
On one side of the corredor was a single large room, half storehouse, half bunk room, with a litter of pack saddles, rawhide kyacks and leather in one corner, a heap of baled hay, grain, and provisions in the other, and the rest strewn with the general wreckage of a camp cooking utensils, Dutch ovens, canvas pack covers, worn-out saddles, and ropes.
"Was you ever in the Jackson country?" asked Uncle Jim. "It's the wildest part of Arizona. It's a big country and rough, and no one lives there, and there's lots of deer and mountain lions and bear. Here's my dogs. We might have a hunt." "Good!" said we. We skirmished around and found a condemned army pack saddle with aparejos, and a sawbuck saddle with kyacks.
"Now you boys all retire; you mustn't have a chance to learn from the other fellow. Hicks, you stay. Now pack that stuff on that horse. I'll time you." Hicks looked about him. "You don't get any kyacks," stated Thorne crisply. "Got to pack all that stuff without 'em?" "Sure."
Winding down out of the hills into the grassy valley of the Upper Sacramento, the little pack train of Banion and Jackson, six hardy mules beside the black horse and Jackson's mountain pony, picked its way along a gashed and trampled creek bed. The kyacks which swung heavy on the strongest two mules might hold salt or lead or gold.
These various things were all stowed away in the kyacks or alforjas which hung on either side. They had to be very accurately balanced. The least difference in weight caused one side to sag, and that in turn chafed the saddle-tree against the animal's withers. So far, so good. Next comes the affair of the top packs. Lay your duffle-bags across the middle of the saddle.
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