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23st- ■ TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA ! 
The moccasins, leggings, .and breech cloth 
constitute the whole of the dress which they • 
wear when they enter upon, a campaign, except 
indeed it be a girdle, from which hangs their 
tobacco pouch' and scalping knife* &c.; nor 
do they wear any thing more when the weather 
is very warm; but when' it is cool, or when they 
dress themselves to visit their friends, they put 
on a short shirt, loose at the neck and wrists, 
generally made of coarse figured cotton or ca¬ 
lico, of some gaudy pattern, not unlike what 
would be used for window or bed curtains at a 
common inn in England. Over the .shirt they 
wear either a blanket, large piece of broad 
cloth, or else a loose coat made somewhat simi** 
larly to a common riding frock; a blanket is 
more comihonly worn than any thing else. 
They tie one end of it round their waste with 
a girdle, and then drawing it over their 
shoulders, either fasten it across their breasts 
w ith a skewer, or hold the corners of it toge¬ 
ther, in the left hand. One would imagine 
that this last mode of wearing it could not but 
be highly inconvenient to them, as it must de¬ 
prive them in a great measure of the use of 
one hand; yet it is the mode in which it is 
commonly worn, even when they are shoot** 
irig in the woods; they generally, however, 
keep the right arm disengaged when they 
carry a gun/ and draw the blanket over the-left 
shoulder. 
