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Thus arranged they could hew, rather Hack down the largest Tree[.] A long pole of about nine feet long with a Bone blade at one end furnished with a row of Barbs composed their Spears[.] Their dags are about the length of ours but much narrower, and made of the Same materials as their Spears, these Bones are arranged and Polished with Beaver Teeth with which they also made their Bows and Arrows[.]

Their Bows are made of dried Willow, about feet Long, at one end of which is fixed a Small Pointed Bone furnished also with a Barb on each Side, as also as the extremity of their Arrows which are about two feet Long[.] Some have flint Stone Points to their arrows, which gives a mortal wound, being something Similar to chewed Ball[.] With these they are very dextrous – being able to Shoot an Elk almost as far as with a Gun[.]

Their Snow Shoes are made of Pine, the length of which is from five to eight feet Long turned up in the front & brought round in the form of a demi circle, the Head is narrow from whence it is gradually opened to the middle the breath being about a foot or fourteen Inches[,] from thence its brought to a behin into a Point behind – with these they can nimbly walk over the most complicated Embarras or thru the thickest wood[.]

Canoes

The Canoes of this Nation are made of Birch Bark, from twelve to eighteen feet Long and about five feet Broad in the middle[.] The Bottom is flat and the two ends gradually tapering into a Point rise about one foot and a half obliquely out of the water[.] They go well

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