Each cart has its own peculiar creak, hoarse and grating, and waggles its own individual waggle, graceless and shaky, on the uneven ground.

To add to its oddity, the shafts are heavy, straight beams, between which is harnessed an ox, the harness of rawhide (shaga-nappi) without buckles.
Everybody makes for himself what he wishes in this undifferentiated Settlement.

We return in tatters.

Not a tailor, nor anything approaching the description of one, exists here, and a week's search is needed to discover such a being as a shoemaker.

A single store in the Hudson's Bay post at each of the two forts, twenty miles apart, supplies the goods of the outside world, and the purchaser must furnish the receptacle for carriage.