Their hunting shirts were bound in at the waist by bright-colored linsey sashes tied behind in a bow.

They wore moccasins for footgear, and on their heads high fur or deerskin caps trimmed with colored bands of raveled cloth.
Around their necks hung their powderhorns ornamented with their own rude carvings.
On the first day they drove along with them a number of beeves but, finding that the cattle impeded the march, they left them behind on the mountain side.

Their provisions thereafter were wild game and the small supply each man carried of mixed corn meal and maple sugar.

For drink, they had the hill streams.
They passed upward between Roan and Yellow mountains to the top of the range.

Here, on the bald summit, where the loose snow lay to their ankles, they halted for drill and rifle practice.