1892-93.] 



NOTES ON THE WESTERN D^N:6s. 



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Here we have the winter walking-stick * already alluded to. It 

 renders to the hand of the traveller over snow fields the same service 

 as the snow-shoe does his feet, since its circular appendage (fig. 144) 



ig- 145- 



prevents the stick from sinking too much in deep snow. It has 

 moreover another very valuable advantage which I have tried to illustrate 

 through fig. 145. The hand of the hunter, warm and trembling from the 

 excitement of the chase, if passed through the leather loop which often 



Fig. 146. 



Fig. 147. 



accompanies the upper part of the staff, can thereby be steadied and 

 find a reliable support for the barrel of his gun while in the act of 



Thsz-»tas, "walking-stick rounded" by allusion to the circular appendage. 



