They are however unfit for summer use as the least moisture causes the skin to spoil and lose its hair.

It requires the skins of seven deer to make one robe.

The finest are made of the skins of young fawns.
The fishing having failed as the weather became more severe was given up on the 5th.

It had procured us about one thousand two hundred white-fish, from two to three pounds each.

There are two other species of Coregoni in Winter Lake, Back's grayling and the round-fish; and a few trout, pike, methye, and red carp were also occasionally obtained from the nets.