Part,  Chapter

  1      I,  I    |         world-famous Hudson’s Bay Company—~“PROPELLE CUTUM.”~“Really,
  2      I,  I    |         Two only of the assembled company did not belong to the ordinary
  3      I,  I    |      employés of the Hudson’s Bay Company. The neighbouring forts
  4      I,  I    |         hands of the Hudson’s Bay Company, in exchange for other commodities.
  5      I,  I    |          black hair.~Such was the company to whom the Captain was
  6      I,  I    |           in the magazines of the Company, which was this year to
  7      I,  I    |           He was “ a child of the Company.” His father, Major Hobson,
  8      I,  I    |        Oregon of the Hudson’s Bay Company with the rival companies
  9      I,  I    |        event. The governor of the Company had given her a special
 10      I,  II   |         II.~ THE HUDSON’S BAY FUR COMPANY.~“Captain Craventy?”~“Mrs
 11      I,  II   |        done by Jaspar Hobson. The Company has charged him to explore
 12      I,  II   |        work. But what induces the Company to construct a fort on the
 13      I,  II   |      cession has taken place, the Company will find access to the
 14      I,  II   |          of vital interest to the Company. But I must beg of you to
 15      I,  II   |          of this once flourishing Company is in danger of destruction.”~
 16      I,  II   |           the famous Hudson’s Bay Company.~In the earliest times men
 17      I,  II   |      Territory was granted to the Company, which numbered several
 18      I,  II   |           existence of the infant Company.~The conquest of Canada,
 19      I,  II   |       goods, but for all this the Company as yet made no profits whatever.
 20      I,  II   |          that powerful North-west Company, which soon became the centre
 21      I,  II   |        fur trade. In 1798 the new Company shipped furs to the value
 22      I,  II   |     existence of the Hudson’s Bay Company was again threatened.~We
 23      I,  II   |          add, that the North-west Company shrank from no act, however
 24      I,  II   |        sprung up—the American Fur Company amongst others, founded
 25      I,  II   |       Mountains.~The Hudson’s Bay Company was probably in greater
 26      I,  II   |          old rival the North-west Company became amalgamated with
 27      I,  II   |          of “The Hudson’s Bay Fur Company.”~Now the only rival of
 28      I,  II   |         the American St Louis Fur Company. The Hudson’s Bay Company
 29      I,  II   |         Company. The Hudson’s Bay Company has numerous establishments
 30      I,  II   |           the headquarters of the Company, and contains its principal
 31      I,  II   |        Europe by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1833-34, which will give
 32      I,  II   |        profit to the Hudson’s Bay Company, but unfortunately they
 33      I,  II   |       1839, madam,” said he, “the Company was in a flourishing condition.
 34      I,  II   |     sufficient explanation of the Company’s motive in founding a factory
 35      I,  II   |         replied the Captain, “the Company is also compelled to seek
 36      I,  II   |        word, the interests of the Company and those of civilisation
 37      I,  II   |         is to the interest of the Company to keep the territory belonging
 38      I,  II   |       enjoyed by the Hudson’s Bay Company was detrimental to all agricultural
 39      I,  II   |    districts, and to leave to the Company only that portion of its
 40      I,  II   |   civilisation. The next year the Company lost the western slopes
 41      I,  II   |      madam, how the agents of the Company, having lost their power
 42      I,  II   |        projects of the celebrated Company. Captain Craventy had given
 43      I,  II   |         immediately fell upon the company assembled.~“Sergeant Long,”
 44      I,  III  |           you?”~“A courier of the Company.”~“Are you alone?”~“No,
 45      I,  III  |     across the territories of the Company in the depth of winter?
 46      I,  III  |        agents of the Hudson’s Bay Company. He ascertained that an
 47      I,  III  |        escort of a courier of the Company; in spite of the severity
 48      I,  III  |     astronomer, “I heard that the Company was sending an expedition
 49      I,  IV   |    attracted the attention of the Company. Numerous streams either
 50      I,  IV   |    soldiers, the magazines of the Company, and the offices where exchanges
 51      I,  IV   |        being the purveyors of the Company, fought for the independence
 52      I,  IV   |        that time the Hudson’s Bay Company employed about a million
 53      I,  IV   |           the best hunters of the Company. Beavers’ skins were then
 54      I,  IV   |           fort, the agents of the Company give him as many pieces
 55      I,  IV   |          the premises; and as the Company fix the price of the articles
 56      I,  IV   |     project in view, however, the Company had collected everything
 57      I,  IV   |        musketoons provided by the Company, pistols, ordnance sabres,
 58      I,  IV   |          as much as possible. The Company had placed at his disposal
 59      I,  IV   |    carrying out the wishes of the Company.~The vehicle which brought
 60      I,  IV   |       arduous calling.~The little company was most skilfully organised.
 61      I,  IV   |          he had received from the Company showed what great importance
 62      I,  V    |     therefore a wise step for the Company to endeavour to explore
 63      I,  V    |           to the interests of the Company! Ah, Sergeant Long, I know
 64      I,  VI   |        before by the Hudson’s Bay Company. It served as a resting-place
 65      I,  VII  |          once the projects of the Company are realised, when the new
 66      I,  VII  |       employé of the Hudson’s Bay Company? and does the Company risk
 67      I,  VII  |         Bay Company? and does the Company risk its capital and agents
 68      I,  VII  |       miles from the forts of the Company, without so much as an Esquimaux
 69      I,  VIII |        most advanced posts of the Company in the north. Fort Confidence
 70      I,  VIII |         of which the Hudson’s Bay Company proposed forming a new settlement.~
 71      I,  VIII |       extinct, the profits of the Company will sensibly decline. All
 72      I,  VIII |         it. I daresay that if the Company’s attempt to establish a
 73      I,  VIII |          who had long been in the Company’s service.~The two travellers
 74      I,  VIII |      green pines. The flag of the Company was still visible floating
 75      I,  VIII |        They are in the pay of the Company, they live upon it, and
 76      I,  X    |        agents of the Hudson’s Bay Company. But as always happens in
 77      I,  X    |        agents of the Hudson’s Bay Company seeking? The famous North-West
 78      I,  X    |    Lieutenant. “A century ago the Company had no interest in the opening
 79      I,  X    |          a bribe of £500 from the Company to say that there was not,
 80      I,  X    |          credit of the celebrated Company,” said Mrs Barnett.~“I do
 81      I,  X    |           when some agents of the Company took up the unfinished task
 82      I,  X    |    Captains Moor and Smith.”~“The Company had then relinquished the
 83      I,  X    |       tell me if the Hudson’s Bay Company did not adopt more generous
 84      I,  X    |         me that the agents of the Company, living as they do close
 85      I,  X    |     reserves for the Hudson’s Bay Company the final conquest of the
 86      I,  X    |        entered the service of the Company his struggles with the agents
 87      I,  XI   |        really about to begin. The Company had advised him to keep
 88      I,  XI   |           position ordered by the Company. There the sea, open for
 89      I,  XI   |        food; the magazines of the Company would be well stocked with
 90      I,  XI   |          who, as the guest of the Company, naturally took a great
 91      I,  XII  |        America; and secret as the Company had kept its scheme, it
 92      I,  XII  |    absorption by the Hudson’s Bay Company of the old North-West Company,
 93      I,  XII  |     Company of the old North-West Company, that it had no longer any
 94      I,  XII  |             and the orders of the Company must be obeyed.”~“Then wait
 95      I,  XII  |         conditions imposed by the Company.~“Well, Lieutenant,” said
 96      I,  XII  |      journey I have taken in your company, Lieutenant, and I shall
 97      I,  XII  |         conditions imposed by the Company.~Probably no good result
 98      I,  XII  |          name of the Hudson’s Bay Company!”~“Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah
 99      I,  XII  |            hurrah! hurrah for the Company!” shouted the worthy companions
100      I,  XIII |       difficulty in supplying the Company’s demands for fur and feathers,
101      I,  XIV  |           the winter to stock the Company’s depôts. Besides, the furred
102      I,  XIV  |         forms a large item in the Company’s exports.~During their
103      I,  XV   |    Bathurst would, be open to the Company’s ships. On the west, the
104      I,  XVI  |           of the interests of the Company. The Arctic creatures had
105      I,  XVI  |           the requirements of the Company, for so far north it was
106      I,  XVI  |  contributed to the stores of the Company. This was the musk-rat or
107      I,  XVI  |       plenty of their furs in the Company’s stores.”~We have now only
108      I,  XVI  |       profits of the Hudson’s Bay Company.~The furs of these foxes
109      I,  XVI  |          an agent of the American Company come to act as a spy on
110      I,  XVI  |         agent of the Hudson’s Bay Company, which claims supremacy
111      I,  XVI  |         consider the Hudson’s Bay Company mistress of the whole of
112      I,  XVI  |         you belong to an American company—~“To the St Louis Fur Company,”
113      I,  XVI  |     company—~“To the St Louis Fur Company,” replied the stranger with
114      I,  XVI  |     general, and the Hudson’s Bay Company in particular, to these
115      I,  XVI  |      present. Whatever rights the Company may arrogate to itself,
116      I,  XVI  |      future when the Hudson’s Bay Company would be compelled to struggle
117      I,  XVI  |          the existence of a rival company would greatly compromise
118      I,  XVII |        agents of the St Louis Fur Company had left the country. No
119      I,  XXI  |          these furs belong to the Company, and it is our duty to preserve
120      I,  XXII |        Hope. Next year one of the Company’s ships will probably anchor
121      I,  XXIII|         his expectations, and the Company might well be satisfied
122      I,  XXIII|         evidently hostile to your Company?”~“Madam, I am both glad
123      I,  XXIII|        agents of the St Louis Fur Company; they might have come, and
124     II,  I    |           courageous agent of the Company to blame for this? No; any
125     II,  I    |         know well enough that the Company promised us double pay.”~
126     II,  II   |           which the agents of the Company now found themselves, and
127     II,  II   |          of no further use to the Company. Sooner or later it would
128     II,  V    |          the free use made of the Company’s property; but Hobson’s
129     II,  VII  |  head-quarters of the Russian Fur Company, whose jurisdiction once
130     II,  VII  | especially since the Hudson’s Bay Company took a lease of the districts
131     II,  VII  |           even members of his own Company, or, failing them, some
132     II,  X    |       leave it. And what will the Company say which confided this
133     II,  XII  |     consider the interests of the Company as much as possible, although
134     II,  XV   |       with my wife! I am sure the Company would give up all claim
135     II,  XXIV |        agents of the Hudson’s Bay Company.~After all the details we
136     II,  XXIV |       waves. If the scheme of the Company was a failure, if the new