hide-curing

Updated: June 13, 2025

Reading, mending, sleeping, with occasional excursions into the bush, with the dogs, in search of coyotes, hares, and rabbits, or to encounter a rattlesnake, and now and then a visit to the presidio, filled up our spare time after hide-curing was over for the day. Another amusement which we sometimes indulged in was ``burning the water'' for craw-fish.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast