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the ninnerous streams. Nearly all their travelling was done on foot, 
in winter without even snow-shoes, which neither they nor the Carrier 
accinired before the end of the eighteenth century. Sleds, too, were 
unknown; the only conv^eyance was a rude toboggan made from the 
leg-skins of the moose ami dragged, not by the dogs, which served 
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A Tiililtaii fishing village. (Photo hy JumeH Tell.) 
only for hunting, but by the women. Travelling equipment was 
necessarily light — a few weapons and tools, spare clothing, hide 
thongs, bark cooking vessels, and material for sewing and netting — 
things for the most part rearlily transportable in the netted bags of 
babiche that the women fabricated in various shapes and sizes. For 
