This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ..."Yes; at least the English goods are better." "But you are not always trusted to bring them back?" "When our people go to Albany, the Dutchmen make them drink so deep of the fire-water, they will barter all their goods again for another drop of rum." It took me a long time and much gesticulation to get so much ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ..."Yes; at least the English goods are better." "But you are not always trusted to bring them back?" "When our people go to Albany, the Dutchmen make them drink so deep of the fire-water, they will barter all their goods again for another drop of rum." It took me a long time and much gesticulation to get so much out of Red Wolf, but the fellow had really begun to have an affection for me, since I healed him of an imaginary ailment I told him he possessed, and he could deny me nothing on which my mind was set, except my liberty. "Give me charge of your furs," I said to Father Tournois, when I met him after vespers that night. "I promise to drive as hard a bargain as any Dutchman in Albany." "But will you be able to keep drink from the Indians?" "That will I, at least until their business is done. I had large experience in the control of riotous young men while an officer of the City Guard in the capital of Scotland." "Good! But can we trust you to return?" "Send Red Wolf, my dear brother, to take care of me. He will see to it that I escape not." I had no intention to bind myself by any vow about spending the winter at Sault St. Louis much as the summer had been to my taste; 'twas my duty to make further search for my sister. Now that her son was no more I cared but little whether I found her or not, though of course I would not let that stand in the way of helping her should I chance to light upon her.. So it was settled, and I made the long journey by canoe with portages and found it tiresome to a degree, though as commander I paddled none and laid not a finger upon the loads. The squaws carried them, as was but proper, and a custom I would fain see introduced...
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