THE CARE OF BLISTERED FEET. 



St. Lawrence posts to meet a winter packet 

 party from Hudson's Bay. A certain lake on 

 the divide was arranged for in the autumn as 

 the meeting place of the two parties. The 

 packeters from Hudson's Bay were to leave on 

 the 3d of January and had a journey ahead of 

 them of 325 miles. My party, tw T o Indians and 

 self, left on the 6th of January, having 55 miles 

 less to travel, or 270 miles. Our day's tramps 

 were so similar in length that we arrived at the 

 rendezvous within four hours of each other. 



One of the party from the bay was a Scotch 

 half-breed, and from him, for the first time, I 

 learned the art of caring properly for the feet. 

 He made me cast aside all my woolen knitted 

 socks, and out of his abundance he supplied me 

 with smoked fawn-skin socks, ankle high, made 

 in the fashion of a moccasin, only with no tops 

 or welts of seams. The top and bottom pieces 

 of leather were herring-boned together, a slit 

 was made in the top half to insert the foot and 

 this was put on the bare foot. On top of this 

 two other shoe socks, made of duffle or blanket- 

 ing, were placed and the moose skin moccasin 

 over all, the leather top of which was tied about 

 the naked ankle. 



I ventured to opine that I would possibly be 

 cold there, or freeze, but my new friend told 

 me the object was to keep the feet from over 



