The Countries of the World: Indians of North America ; Arctic regions ; Canada ; Pacific CoastCassell, 1876 |
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Page 156
... officers in charge and the servants imprisoned and half starved , and sometimes even obliged by famine to surrender ; the furs on the way to the rendezvous were intercepted and appropriated , and the whole trade turned into a furious ...
... officers in charge and the servants imprisoned and half starved , and sometimes even obliged by famine to surrender ; the furs on the way to the rendezvous were intercepted and appropriated , and the whole trade turned into a furious ...
Page 166
... officers might be classed thus : -The labourer , ready to turn his hand to anything : to become trapper , fisherman , or carpenter , at the shortest notice . He was generally employed in cutting firewood for the consumption of the ...
... officers might be classed thus : -The labourer , ready to turn his hand to anything : to become trapper , fisherman , or carpenter , at the shortest notice . He was generally employed in cutting firewood for the consumption of the ...
Page 172
... officers dined in sumptuous style , with no lack of old Hudson Bay port , kept many years in the Company's cellars in London before it made the sea voyage to the North Pacific , while in others the dietic necessities were so incapable ...
... officers dined in sumptuous style , with no lack of old Hudson Bay port , kept many years in the Company's cellars in London before it made the sea voyage to the North Pacific , while in others the dietic necessities were so incapable ...
Contents
THE ARCTIC REGIONS IN GENERAL | 17 |
SEA ICE GLACIERS AND ICEBERGS | 48 |
LIFE IN POLAR LANDS | 71 |
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