A journey from Prince of Wales's fort in Hudson Bay to the northern ocean, in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772-- . ^ //uzM (^^aU-/i Nfi^^ INDIAX IMPLEMENTS NORTHERN OCEAN 311 backs, much after the same manner as packs are, or usedformerly to be, on pack-horses. In the fall of the year, and as the Winter advances, thosepeople sew the skins of the deers legs together in the shapeof long portmanteaus, which, when hauled on the snow as thehair lies, are as slippery as an otter, and serve them as tem-porary sledges while on the barren ground; but when theyarrive at any woods, they then
A journey from Prince of Wales's fort in Hudson Bay to the northern ocean, in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772-- . ^ //uzM (^^aU-/i Nfi^^ INDIAX IMPLEMENTS NORTHERN OCEAN 311 backs, much after the same manner as packs are, or usedformerly to be, on pack-horses. In the fall of the year, and as the Winter advances, thosepeople sew the skins of the deers legs together in the shapeof long portmanteaus, which, when hauled on the snow as thehair lies, are as slippery as an otter, and serve them as tem-porary sledges while on the barren ground; but when theyarrive at any woods, they then make proper sledges, with thinboards of the larch-tree, generally known in Hudsons Bay bythe name of Juniper.^ [324] Those sledges are of various sizes, according to thestrength of the persons who are to haul them : some I haveseen were not less than twelve or fourteen feet long, and fifteenor sixteen inches wide, but in general they do not exceed eightor nine feet in length, and twelve or fourteen inches in breadth. The boards of which those sledges are composed are notmore than a quarter of an inch thick, and
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