MISTAKE NO. 3. 125 



one of the four parts of each article. These boxes 

 were numbered from one to four and four num- 

 bered lists made of their contents. 



MISTAKE NO. 3. 



Having completed our commissary purchases, we 

 were ready for the next order of business, viz., the 

 procuring for each a pair of sealskin Labrador boots, 

 which we were assured by Wakeman Holbertson, in 

 his description of a hunt in Newfoundland, were the 

 only footwear which could be used. He went even 

 so far as to assert that rubber goods could not be used 

 in Newfoundland. Had he advised rubber boots as the 

 only proper footgear to use on a caribou hunt in New- 

 foundland, he would have saved us from having our 

 six legs pulled to the tune of $2.50 per leg. We got 

 them all right, at $5.00 a pair. True, they are the 

 lightest boot made, and may do on dry ice and in dry 

 snow, but not to wade through water halfway up to 

 the knees. They are as thin as writing paper, and 

 the only way you can put them on is when sopping 

 wet. They are not waterproof according to the 

 American interpretation of the term as we saw it. 

 My friends after testing theirs gave them to the car- 

 riers ; I brought mine home as a relic, and they are 

 for sale cheap. 



