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leather and hide; but the staple and mainstay was rock- 

 tripe. It is not delicious food, nor is it highly nutritious, 

 but it wiU sustain life, and every traveler should know 

 what it is like and how to use it. 



Drinks. It will be a fitting conclusion to this question of 

 foods if we note one or two possible drinks. Franklin and 

 Richardson used Labrador tea as a hot drink. This is an 

 infusion of the plants figured here. But good and slightly 

 nourishing drinks are made also of the buds, sprouts, or 

 inner bark of spruce, basswood, tamarac, birch, and es- 

 pecially of slippery elm. 



