Part, Chapter
1 I, I | of skins and mantles of fur, with a head-dross of eagle’
2 I, II | CHAPTER II.~ THE HUDSON’S BAY FUR COMPANY.~“Captain Craventy?”~“
3 I, II | the centre of the northern fur trade. The transport of
4 I, II | animals as clothing. The fur trade is therefore of very
5 I, II | taking of Quebec, 1776, the fur trade received a new impulse.
6 I, II | combined to explore the fur country, and founded that
7 I, II | became the centre of the fur trade. In 1798 the new Company
8 I, II | had sprung up—the American Fur Company amongst others,
9 I, II | title of “The Hudson’s Bay Fur Company.”~Now the only rival
10 I, II | is the American St Louis Fur Company. The Hudson’s Bay
11 I, II | and contains its principal fur depôt. Moreover, in 1842
12 I, II | that the animals whose fur is valuable have become
13 I, IV | the possession of the rich fur country.~At that time the
14 I, IV | of the seal-skin boots. Fur caps and deer-skin belts
15 I, V | s own neck, sending his fur cap into the air, perhaps
16 I, VIII | feet, short legs, and its fur, darker on the upper than
17 I, VIII | examining the magnificent fur of the dead animal.~“Yes,
18 I, VIII | hunters try to obtain its fur, and the Americans in particular
19 I, XI | more and more rare, and the fur of which is worth its weight
20 I, XIII | the Company’s demands for fur and feathers, so soon as
21 I, XIV | brown eyes, and a soft fur resembling swan’s down.
22 I, XIV | with long tails, whose fur becomes white in the winter.
23 I, XIV | latitudes; and the short fur with which it is clothed
24 I, XVI | referred to. It is true, the fur of the beaver is not now
25 I, XVI | very great value, their fur being black, and therefore
26 I, XVI | brown. Beneath the long fur, the beavers have a second
27 I, XVI | its tail ten inches. Its fur is in considerable demand.
28 I, XVI | were also despatched, their fur is reddish-brown, and that
29 I, XVI | tail. At present the upper fur was reddish-brown and the
30 I, XVI | hunted with great zeal. Their fur is in considerable demand,
31 I, XVI | a black muzzle, and the fur is not as one would suppose
32 I, XVI | Russia, composed entirely of fur from the neck of the blue
33 I, XVI | neck of the blue fox (the fur from the neck is considered
34 I, XVI | fell into their hands. The fur of the latter-of a lustrous
35 I, XVI | creature, with a coal-black fur tipped with white at the
36 I, XVI | company—~“To the St Louis Fur Company,” replied the stranger
37 I, XVII | cloaks, sealskin pantaloons, fur bonnets, and waterproof
38 I, XVII | left its warm and valuable fur in the hands of the hunters.
39 I, XVII | the agents of the St Louis Fur Company had left the country.
40 I, XIX | reindeers’, and we get the fur in! Come along.”~The two
41 I, XIX | gloom like a pile of white fur with two glittering eyes.
42 I, XIX | muzzle, and smooth white fur characteristic of the species.
43 I, XXIII| the agents of the St Louis Fur Company; they might have
44 II, III | beneath his thick white fur. What we cannot do with
45 II, VII | head-quarters of the Russian Fur Company, whose jurisdiction
46 II, VIII | about, bits of sealskin and fur.~“Come, come,” cried Mrs
47 II, VIII | round and round a bundle of fur on the ground, which it
48 II, VIII | fall again. The bundle of fur looked like the dead body
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