 ... are sold to the Indians. A coarse butcher's knife is one skin, a woollen blanket or a fathom of coarse cloth, eight, and a fowling-piece fifteen. The Indians receive their principal outfit of clothing and ammunition on credit in the autumn, to be...  America and the West Indies: Geographically Described - Page 358by George Long, George Richardson Porter, George Tucker, Wilhelm Wittich - 1845 - 648 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1823 - 508 pages
...clothing aud ammunition on credit in the autumn, to be repaid by their winter hunts ; the amount intrusted to each of the hunters, varying with their reputations...skill, from twenty to one hundred and fifty skins. The Indians are generally anxious to pay off the debt thus incurred; but their good intentions are often... | |
 | Sir John Franklin - Arctic regions - 1824 - 404 pages
...clothing and ammunition on credit in the autumn, to be repaid by their winter hunts ; the amount intrusted to each of the hunters, varying with their reputations...skill, from twenty to one hundred and fifty skins. The Indians are generally anxious to pay off the debt thus incurred, but their good intentions are often... | |
 | Sir John Franklin - Arctic regions - 1824 - 406 pages
...clothing and ammunition on credit in the autumn, to be repaid by their winter hunts ; the amount intrusted to each of the hunters, varying with their reputations...skill, from twenty to one hundred and fifty skins. The Indians are generally anxious to pay off the debt thus incurred, but their good intentions are often... | |
 | George Long, Wilhelm Wittich, George Richardson Porter, George Tucker, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - America - 1841 - 652 pages
...fur-bearing animals form the principal traffic of this country. The animals are various kinds of foxae, black, silver, cross, red, and blue foxes ; white...successfully grown, and the quality is said to be nearly as good as those grown in England. Vegetables also have been brought to perfection by the traders.... | |
 | John Franklin - Travel - 2005 - 453 pages
...clothing and ammunition on credit in the autumn, to be repaid by their winter hunts ; the amount intrusted to each of the hunters, varying with their reputations...skill, from twenty to one hundred and fifty skins. The 78 Franklin's Journey to Indians are generally anxious to pay off the debt thus incurred, but their... | |
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