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Updated: June 6, 2025
The mode of walking on a Canadian snow-shoe, which he had learned with such difficulty, had to be completely unlearned before he could begin to make progress with the Scandinavian footgear.
"A snow-shoe is made of two light bars of wood, fastened together at their extremities, and projected into curves by transverse bars.
The dogs slunk to their bellies, snarling at him. "What the devil " he began, and stopped. He stared at the snow. Straight out from Couchée's trail there ran another a snow-shoe trail. For a moment he thought that Couchée or his wife had for some reason struck out a distance from their sledge. A second glance assured him that in this supposition he was wrong.
Now, if he will conceive his hoop bent into an oblong shape something like what the figure of a boat turned on its mouth would make in snow and if he will also fancy the netting to consist of thongs of twisted deer-hide woven somewhat closely together, he will get a very good idea of an Indian snow-shoe.
We moved forward the next morning, but the trail we had broken was too narrow and had to be widened, which meant one snow-shoe in the deep snow all the time, a very fatiguing process that brought into painful play again the tendon strained with five days' heavy snow-shoeing.
Sometimes twisted intestines are used, and the netting exactly resembles that seen in "racquets" for ball play. The snow-shoe, when finished, is simply fastened upon the foot by means of straps or thongs; and a pair of them thus placed, will present a surface to the snow of nearly six square feet more, if required, by making them larger.
Sometimes twisted intestines are used, and the netting exactly resembles that seen in "racquets" for ball play. The snow-shoe, when finished, is simply fastened upon the foot by means of straps or thongs; and a pair of them thus placed, will present a surface to the snow of nearly six square feet more, if required, by making them larger.
He traveled in many places where a white man had never been before, and as there are no beaten trails or government roads in the district anywhere, he was obliged, everywhere, to snow-shoe ahead of his team to beat down a trail." "Did you ever snow-shoe?" asked Barnes abruptly.
Nevertheless he followed the snow-shoe trails until he knew where every unnatural thing lay hidden; and no matter how hungry he was, or how cunningly the old Indian hid his devices, or however deep the new snow covered all traces of man's work, Wayeeses passed by on the other side and kept his dainty feet out of every snare and pitfall.
Their deeds are known even so far as where the Great Salt Lake beats on the shore where the sun rises. They are not women, and when their enemies hear the sound of their name they grow pale; their hearts become like those of the reindeer. My brethren are famous, too, in the use of the snow-shoe, the snare, and the gun.
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