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cold, and the flesh is excellent food, whether 
fresh or dried or made into pemmican; the fat 
is reduced and put up in bladders, and in some 
cases used for frying fish, etc. 
The hide of the buffalo is tanned or dressed 
altogether by the women, or squaws, and the 
children. 
The scrapings of the skins, we were informed, 
are sometimes boiled with berries, and make a 
kind of jelly, which is considered good food in 
some cases by the Indians. The strips cut off 
from the skins are sewed together and make 
robes for the children, or caps, mittens, shoes, 
etc. The bones are pounded fine with a large 
stone and boiled, the grease which rises to the 
top is skimmed off and put into bladders. This 
is the‘ favourite and famous marrow grease, 
which is equal to butter. The sinews are used 
for stringing their bows, and are a substitute for 
thread; the intestines are eaten, the shoulder- 
blades made into hoes, and in fact (as we have 
already stated) nothing is ‘ost or wasted, but 
every portion of the aniriai, by toe skill and in 
dustry of the Indians, is rerde6¢ usual 
