[Footnote 178: "This moss is called by the Canadian voyageurs, _Tripe de Roche_; it belongs to the order Gyrophara. They who have perused the affecting narrative of the sufferings of Captain Franklin and his gallant party, on their return from their first journey to the Arctic Sea, will remember that it was on _Tripe de Roche_ that they depended, under God, for their very existence. 'We looked,' says Captain Franklin, 'with humble confidence to the Great Author and giver of all good, for a continuance of the support which had been hitherto always supplied to us at our greatest need,' and he was not disappointed."--Murray's _Canada_, vol. iii., p. 330. "Parmi les sauvages errans, et qui ne cultivent point du tout la terre, lorsque la chasse et la peche leur manquent, leur unique ressource est une espece de mousse, qui croit sur certains rochers, et que nos Francais ont nommee Tripe de Roche; rien n'est plus insipide que ce mets, lequel n'a pas meme beaucoup de substance, c'est bien la etre reduit au pur necessaire pour ne pas mourir de faim."--Charlevoix, tom. vi., p. 24.] [Footnote 179: See Appendix, No. XXX. (see Vol II)] [Footnote 180: See Appendix, No. XXXI. (see Vol II)] [Footnote 181: "The Swedes gave the name of Indian hemp to Apocynum cannabinum, because the Indians apply it to the same purposes as the Europeans do hemp; for the stalk may be divided into filaments, and is easily prepared. This plant grows in abundance in old corn grounds, in woods, on hills, and on high glades. The Indians make ropes of this Apocynum, which the Swedes buy, and employ them as bridles, and for nets. These ropes are stronger, and kept longer in water than such as were made of common hemp. The Swedes commonly got fourteen yards of these ropes for one piece of bread. On my journey through the country of the Iroquois, I saw the women employed in manufacturing this hemp. The plant is perennial, which renders the annual planting of it altogether unnecessary. Out of the root and stalk of this plant, when it is fresh, comes a white, milky juice, which is somewhat poisonous. Sometimes the fishing tackle of the Indian consists entirely of this hemp."--Kalm, in Pinkerton, vol xiii., p. 544.] [Footnote 182: See Appendix, No. XXXII. (see Vol II)] [Footnote 183: Buffon, Hist. Nat., tom. ix., p. 13, 203; Acosta, Hist., lib. iv., cap. xxxiv.; Pisonis Hist., p. 6; Herrera, Dec. IV., lib. iv., cap. i.; lib. x., cap. xiii.]