. Labrador [microform] : a sketch of its peoples, its industries and its natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 170 " HOSSACS. !| they will tfien spend the greater part of the remainder of the night in revelling, with only a few hours of sleep between this and another day of the same sort. Nor do I exaggerate a particle, when I say that this life is continued sometimes a month at a time, through all sorts of weather. Such is the life of these hardy people in winter when they go out for a "good time ;" and in summer, during the fishing season, it is fully as bad;
. Labrador [microform] : a sketch of its peoples, its industries and its natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 170 " HOSSACS. !| they will tfien spend the greater part of the remainder of the night in revelling, with only a few hours of sleep between this and another day of the same sort. Nor do I exaggerate a particle, when I say that this life is continued sometimes a month at a time, through all sorts of weather. Such is the life of these hardy people in winter when they go out for a "good time ;" and in summer, during the fishing season, it is fully as bad; but the people are, for the most part, pleasant and friendly, and a stranger has no cause to complain for want of being favored. The fancy work in which the ladies indulge to a greater or less extent, especially in the winter evenings, may be known as pouches, pockets, " /wsscics," watch cases, and sometimes cushions and a variety of beadwork of all sorts and patterns,—the latter being mostly worked by Indian s(iuaws, who, with the men, often live in tents near the coast in the spring and summer time when they sell all sorts of articles of their own manuAicture and handiwork. While watches arc rare on the coast, the various patterns for watch cases, of beadwork or cloth or on sealskin, are various and very pretty. As I am writing I have one now hung on the wall at my right. It is about six inches long, and three broad at the widest part; the shape is rather sharp ovoid. The main part is of harbor sealskin plainly ir ^ very neatly worked with colored beads on the upper part, while the outside of the pocket has three little knots of the same on either side of the round opening for the face of the watch, which opening, with the upper edge of the pocket, and the whole outer edge of the case has an edging of purple ribbon, on which a string of white beads is sewed in smnll scallops entirely around it; the inside pocket lining, as shown through the opening in front, is of
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