Every once in a while I do something inadvertently authentic. Captain Pierre Pouchot, writing of the French and Indian War: They make mittens of skins or flannel, hung to their neck by a string, which serves them better than gloves, because the separated fingers would be more likely to freeze. Pierre Pouchot, Memoir upon the late war in North America, between the French and English, 1755-60 : followed by observations upon the theatre of actual war, and by new details concerning the manners and customs of the Indians ; with topographical maps (Old Fort Niagara Association; First Edition, 1994) Courtesy of Gibb Zea.
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