145 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 
CHAPTER IV. 
Leave Cumberland House—Mode of Travelling in Winter—Arrival 
at Carlton House—Stone Indians—Visit to a Buffalo Pound— 
~ Goitres—Departure from Carlton House—Isle A la Crosse— 
Arrival at Fort Chipewyan, PO) fi 
is90, THis day we set out from Cumberland 
January 18. House for Carlton House: but previously 
to detailing the events of the journey, it may be 
proper to describe the necessary equipments of a 
winter traveller in this region, which I cannot do 
better than by extracting the following brief, 
but accurate, account of it from Mr. Hood’s 
journal :— 
“A snow-shoe is made of two light bars of 
wood, fastened together at their extremities, and 
Projected into curves by transverse bars, The 
side bars have been so shaped by a frame, and 
dried before a fire, that the front part of the shoe 
turns up, like the prow of a boat, and the part 
behind terminates in an acute angle; the spaces 
between the bars are filled up with a fine netting 
of leathern thongs, except that part behind the 
