The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 7: Quebec, Hurons, Cape Breton, 1634-1635
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The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 7: Quebec, Hurons, Cape Breton, 1634-1635
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
Quand il y a beaucoup de pacquets, ce qui arriue lors qu'ils ont tué
grand nombre d'Eslans, les femmes en vont porter vne partie iuīqu'au
lieu où l'on doit camper le iour suiuant; quand la neige est haute,
ils font des traisnées de bois qui se fend, & qui se leue comme par
fueilles assez minces & fort longues, ces traisnées sont fort estroites
à raisõ qu'elles se doiuent tirer entre vne infinité d'arbres fort
pressez en quelques endroits, mais en recompense elles sont fort
longues. Voyant vn iour celle de mon hoste dressée contre vn arbre, à
peine peus ie atteindre au milieu estendant le bras autant qu'il me fut
possible. Ils lient leur bagage là dessus, & auec vne corde qui leur
vient passer sur l'estomach, ils traisnent sur la neige ces chariots
sans rouës.
When there are a number of things to be carried, as often happens
when they have killed a great many Elk, the women go ahead, and
carry a part of them to the place where they are to camp the
following day. When the snow is deep, they make sledges of wood
which splits, and which can be peeled off like leaves in very thin,
long strips. These sledges are very narrow, because they have to be
dragged among masses of trees closely crowded in some places; but,
to make up for this, they are very long. One day, seeing that of my
host standing against a tree, I could scarcely reach to the middle
of it, stretching out my arm as far as I could. They fasten their
baggage upon these, and, with a cord which they pass over their
chests, they drag these wheelless chariots over the snow.
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