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cariok's, and for making glue. The leather is serviceable 

 in a variety of ways, but is principally made up into 

 tents and articles of clothing, and in the fabrication of 

 dog-harness, fine cords, wallets, &c. The capotes, gowns, 

 ' fire-bags,' mittens, and moccasins made of it are 

 often richly ornamented with quills and beads. The 

 lines and cords are of various sizes, the largest being 

 used for sled - lines and pack - cords, the smaller for 

 lacing snow-shoes and other purposes. In order to 

 make the sled-lines pliant — a very necessary quality 

 when the temperature is 40° or 50° below zero, Fahr. — 

 the cord is first soaked in fat fish-liquor ; it is then 

 dried in the frost, and afterwards rubbed by hauling it 

 through the eye of an axe. To complete the operation it 

 is well greased, and any hard lumps masticated until they 

 become soft, by which process a line is produced of great 

 strength and pliancy, and which is not liable to crack in 

 the most severe cold. To obtain thread, the fibres of the 

 sinews are separated, and twisted into the required sizes. 

 The Moose furnishes the best quality of this article, which 

 is used by the natives to sew both leather and cloth, to 

 make rabbit snares, and to weave into fishing nets." 



The long white hairs are used by the squaws in 

 the ornamental embroidery of their different articles of 

 clothing and finery ; and the hoofs of the fore feet with 

 about twelve inches of the skin attached, and flattened 



