This cloak was fastened round the waist by a girdle, and the legs were covered with leather gaiters.

The Kristino men were eager that their women should marry Europeans, because the half-breed children proved to be bolder warriors and better hunters than themselves.

Henry found that although the Kris were much addicted to drunkenness they were peaceable when inebriated, and, moreover, detached two of their number, who refused ever to touch the liquor under such circumstances, in order that they might guard the white men, and not allow any drunken Indian to approach their camp.
[Footnote 12: See p.

166.] Henry and his party, after crossing Lake Winnipeg, ascended the Saskatchewan (in the autumn of 1775).

On their way up this river they came to a village of Paskwaya Indians, which consisted of thirty families, who were lodged in tents of a circular form, composed of dressed bison skins stretched upon poles twelve feet in length.