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glazed, retaining the heat, but we felt damp 

 and chilly on getting out, and had to hurry up 

 and walk to warm ourselves. We returned to 

 our camp, and felt no ill effects from our night in 

 the snow. After that night each of us carried 

 a vial of matches. I slept in the snow again 

 after that, but I was provided with a good hare 

 skin blanket and coton wrapper, and we followed 

 the same plan occasionally to save the time and 

 work of making a camp when after caribou or on 

 a long tramp. 



31 Har* S>kin IHattktf; Hutu it is jtilabt, I do 

 not believe there is anything in creation so warm 

 for its weight as this kind of blanket. For com- 

 fort I would sooner have one of them than six 

 ordinary woollen ones. A pair of four or four 

 and a half points old style H. B. Co. blankets 

 used to weigh about fourteen pounds. A hare 

 skin of the same size will weigh about five. One 

 hundred hare skins are required to make a blan- 

 ket of the above size, but twenty- five is sufficient 

 to begin the work, and a little is added from time 

 to time as the skins are secured. On skinning the 

 hare the skin is left with the fur inside and al- 

 lowed to dry, by hanging outside. If dried in 

 the heat of the camp it gets burned and breaks. 

 The same will apply to all kinds of fur. They 

 should never be exposed to the heat of a fire or to 

 the sun. The skins are moistened and set up on 

 the rounded head of a stake, covered with some 



