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A mochila (Spanish,〔(mochila ), Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, 22ª edición.〕 pronounced (), for "knapsack", "pack", "pouch") is a removable lightweight leather cover put over a horse's saddle. In the nineteenth century, it was used as a mail bag by the Pony Express. The eighth-of-an-inch leather cover draped over the saddle on a horse. There were slits cut into the leather which allowed the saddle horn and cantle to protrude through.〔Tucker, p. 18〕 Riders of the Pony Express made quick exchanges to new fresh horses, usually within a few minutes at each remount station on their route across the United States. The ''mochila'' was removed from the exhausted horse and swiftly placed over the saddle of the new fresh waiting horse that the relay station had for him. ==Etymology== Joan Corominas〔''mochila'' in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, volume IV, page 94, Joan Corominas, José A. Pascual, Editorial Gredos, 1989 ISBN 84-249-0066-9〕 derives the Spanish ''mochila'' from ''mochil'' ("delivery boy"), itself from Basque ''mutil'' ("boy").
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