I have mentioned that I saved the skins of all the creatures that I killed, I mean four-footed ones, and I had them hung up, stretched out with sticks in the sun, by which means some of them were so dry and hard that they were fit for little, but others were very useful.
J'ai noté que je conservais les peaux de touts les animaux que je tuais, des bêtes à quatre pieds, veux-je dire. Comme je les étendais au soleil sur des bâtons, quelques-unes étaient devenues si sèches et si dures qu'elles n'étaient bonnes à rien; mais d'autres me furent réellement très-profitables.