In the-Artic Regions. 43 
CHAPTER IV. 
January 18. - 
1820. THIS day we set out from Cumberland House 
for Carlton House ; but previously to detailing the 
events of the journey, it may be proper to describe the 
necessary 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 bars have 
been so shaped by a frame, and dried before a fire, 
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 thongs, except that part be- 
hind the main bar, which is occupied by the feet ; 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 rises 
after each step, and the tail of the shoe is dragged on 
