. India rubber world. the man is content. In the winter he traps and gets beautiful skins, but he knowslittle of values, so he devotes these to his family needs first, stor-ing what is left till he gets a load, when he goes by dog-teamacross the frozen fiords to the nearest Hudson Bay trading he arranges for barter, and always gets the worst of has many wants to be filled—powder, ammunition, needs baking powder, spices, groceries—things that dontabound in Labrador. He wants garments; but most of all hewants a good stout slicker, as he calls a rubber coat—and heeyes the
. India rubber world. the man is content. In the winter he traps and gets beautiful skins, but he knowslittle of values, so he devotes these to his family needs first, stor-ing what is left till he gets a load, when he goes by dog-teamacross the frozen fiords to the nearest Hudson Bay trading he arranges for barter, and always gets the worst of has many wants to be filled—powder, ammunition, needs baking powder, spices, groceries—things that dontabound in Labrador. He wants garments; but most of all hewants a good stout slicker, as he calls a rubber coat—and heeyes the wonderful rubber boots the company is prepared totrade him. What he would sav to the regular fishing boot, with \D0R Fishermen in Their Se.\l-Skix Boots. the winter the native traps a bit in this unknown country, butnever farther than points he can see from those coast mountainsas he crosses their ridge to come down on the landward the s;)ring he kills the seal on the ice; in the suiumer he takes. L.\\DOR Children We.\r Se.\l-Skin Boots. the stifT lower leg and the pliable upper part, in which a man cango to his waist in water and be dry. it is interesting to speculate. That no one has as yet come up here with a boat load ofrubber goods of substantial and serviceable description is awonder. Seal-skin coats, taken and cured as only a trapper cancure them, would be nothing to the native compared with a rubbercoat. He knows how the waves dash over the punt when herides out to the cod-trap; he knows how rheumatism comes on,as a result of years of such exposure, and he envies the happyNewfoundlanders who have coats, hats and boots of rubber. Ofcourse he hasnt money, but he can barter. If you prefer fish,which you can sell the (ilantLr or his agent, well and good. Ifyou want furs you can come to conclusions even quicker. Heknows furs are the more valuable, but he knows, too, that forhim they are easy to get. He knows that in the winter thoserubber boots would b
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