In the Artie Regions. 43 



CHAPTER IV. 



Tins day we Bel out from Cumberland House 

 F r Carlton House; but previously to detailing the 

 Lis of the journey, it may be proper to describe the 

 ry equipments of a winter traveler in this re- 

 gion, 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 liars have 

 been so shaped by a frame, and dried before a lire, 

 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 thou rpt that | 



hind the main bar, which is occupied by the feel ; the 



netting is there close and strong, and the foot is at- 

 tached to the main bar by straps passing round the 



heel, but only fixing the toes, so that the heel ii 

 alter each step, and the tail of the Bhoe i- dragged on 



