IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



usually heated outside, were dropped by means 

 of forked sticks. These were sprinkled with 

 water to generate steam. A temporary cover- 

 ing of blankets or skins made the enclosure 

 tight, . . . The construction of a sweat-house 

 was usually attended with many rules and 

 observances. . . . Among the Kiowa (Mooney) 

 the framework consisted always of twelve sup- 

 ports." It is interesting to note that there 

 were just twelve supports in this sweat-house. 

 The sweat-bath has been used among the 

 Indians as a religious rite, as a treatment for 

 disease, and as a social and hygienic practice. 

 Hovering about the camp, probably with a 

 view to food, was a Labrador jay, the darker 

 race of the Canada jay or whisky-jack. 



The portage-path led up over an old sea- 

 beach perhaps two hundred feet above sea- 

 level, made up of rounded cobbles and pebbles 

 more or less disintegrated by the vegetable 

 growth and frost. The rocky heights at the 

 same level were bare of boulders, but those 

 two or three hundred feet higher showed deli- 

 cately poised boulders against the sky-line. 

 On one of these I counted fourteen large ones. 

 The view to the south gave a glimpse of the 



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