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 cowbane (Cicuta virosa).

An inferior colour is obtained 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 reindeer, the former termed by the Crees mongsoa, or moosoa, the latter attekh.