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Iikewife to their own convenience with refpedt to 
fhelter from the winds, and getting of fire-wood ; 
which, it will eafily be imagined, makes a con- 
liderable article here in the neceffaries of life : I mean 
at this feafon of the year. 
Much about this time, Iikewife, we who flayed at 
the fadlory began to put on our winter rigging j the 
principle part of which was our toggy, made of 
beaver fkins: in making of which, the perfon’s 
fhape, who is to wear it, is no farther confulted, 
than that it may be wide enough, and fo long that 
it may reach nearly to his feet. A pair of mittens 
and a cap, of the fame, are all the extraordinary drefs 
that are worn by thofe who flay at the factory, un- 
lefs we add a pair of fpatter-dafhes, made of broad 
cloth, which we wear over our common (lockings, 
and two or three pair of woollen focks, which we 
have on our feet. Thofe who go out add to the 
fur part of their drefs a beaver fkin cap, which comes 
down, fo as to cover their neck and fhoulders, and 
alfo a neckcloth, or cravat made of a white fox’s 
fkin, or, which is much more complete, the tails of 
two of thefe animals fewed together at the flump- 
ends, which are full as long and thick as thofe of 
the Lincolnfhire weathers before they are fhorn. 
Befide thefe, they have fhoes of foft-tanned moofe 
fkin, and a pair of fnow- fhoes about 4 feet, or 4 £ 
feet long. Moft of thefe articles of drefs I was fur- 
nifhed with by the honourable Hudfon’s Bay com- 
pany ; but my chefl was broken open, after the fhip 
came up the river, and every article, except the 
fnow fhoes, taken away by the officers of the cuf- 
toms. And though there was not one thing which 
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