cargador de hatajo

(Sp. model spelled same [karyaðór] < cargar plus agentive suffix -dor; 'one who carries.')

   1) According to Blevins, a porter, generally a Mexican or Indian, employed by traders or by the army to pack loads on his back.

   2) DARE: 1811. A freighter who reports to the pack master of a mule train. The DRAE references cargador as one who loads merchandise or one who transports cargo. In America, the term refers to a porter or errand boy. Santamaría concurs and adds that a cargador de hatajo is the foreman of a pack train or the leader among muleteers.