[8] Soles made of buffalo hide.
[9] The Hudson Bay Company having amalgamated with the American North West Company, is known by the name 'North West' to the southern trappers. Their employés usually wear Canadian capotes.
[10] A spice of the devil.
[11] “Euker,” “poker,” and “seven up,” are the fashionable games of cards.
[12] Antelope are frequently called “goats” by the mountaineers.
[13] An Indian is always a “heap” hungry or thirsty—loves a “heap”—is a “heap” brave—in fact, “heap” is tantamount to very much.
[14] The young untried warriors of the Indians are thus called.
[15] There is a great difference between an Indian's fire and a white's. The former places the ends of logs to burn gradually; the latter, the centre, besides making such a bonfire that the Indians truly say, “The white makes a fire so hot that he cannot approach to warm himself by it.”
[16] A pithy substance found in dead pine-trees.
[17] Saddle-blanket made of buffalo-calf skin.