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a quantity of the juice of the mooseberry, 

 strawberry, cranberry, or arctic raspberry, 

 is added, together with a few red tufts of 

 pistils of the larch. The porcupine quills 

 are plunged into the liquor before it becomes 

 quite cold, and are soon tinged of a beautiful 

 scarlet. The process sometimes fails, and 

 produces only a dirty brown, a circumstance 

 which ought probably to be ascribed to the 

 use of an undue quantity of acid. They 

 dye black with an ink made of elder bark, 

 and a little bog-iron-ore dried and pounded, 

 and they have various modes of producing 

 yellow. The deepest colour is obtained 

 from the dried root of a plant, which from 

 their description appears to be the cow-bane 

 (cicuta virosa). An inferior colour is ob- 

 tained from the bruised buds of the Dutch 

 myrtle, and they have discovered methods 

 of dyeing with various lichens. 



The quadrupeds that are hunted for food 

 in this part of the country are the moose 

 and the rein-deer, the former termed by the 

 Crees niongsoa, or moosoa, the latter attekh. 

 The buffalo or bison, (moostoosh,) the red- 



