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making long overland journeys during the cold winter 

 season. It consists of a long oval water-proof skin bag, 

 lined with another of similar shape, made of soft but 

 heavy winter deer-skins. The opening is not at the top, 

 but near it, across one side, and is made with flap and 

 buttons, so that it can be closed up as closely as desired. 

 When the traveller is provided with this kind of a bed 

 he does not trouble himself to make a snow lodge for the 

 night, as without it he would have to do, but he simply 

 crawls into his " shin-ig-bee," buttons up the opening 

 on the windward side, and goes to sleep, no matter what 

 the weather or temperature may be. With the mercury 

 at 40 below zero a man may in this way sleep warm and 

 comfortable, without any fire, out upon the bleak frozen 

 >lains. 



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