The tribes brought down their goods, beaver skins, martens, foxes and feathers, to the Factory and delivered them through a small aperture in the side of the storehouse.
But having too heavy a load ofbeaver skins to carry, on landing they destroyed their canoes with their axes, as their custom was to render them useless.
They landed, and drew up their canoes in a line up the bank, took out their packs of beaver skins, set up their wigwams, slung their kettles and encamped for the night.
This year also de Montmagny and the inhabitants applied the product of 1,250 beaver skins to their new church being constructed at Quebec and dedicated to Our Lady of Peace in view of the conclusion of peace, now heartily desired.
It was urged that the fur trade would leave Montreal for Albany, as beaver skins, if they got there, would fetch a higher price.
They think more of beaver skins than of souls, and their missions are pure mockeries.
The Iroquois knew this; and their constant effort was to close it so completely that the annual supply of beaver skins would be prevented from passing, and the colony be compelled to live on credit.
The currency at that period, and long before, in Canadian history, was in beaver skins, which were approximately valued at the price of two shillings and sixpence a pound.
Thus, for example, the native canoemen and porters engaged by Henry for his winter hunts were paid each at the rate of a hundred pounds weight of beaver skins.
Otter skins were valued at six shillings each, and marten skins at one shilling and sixpence, and others in proportion; but all these things were classed at being worth so many beaver skins or proportion of beaver skins.
The traders undoubtedly received in payment the only currency of the country, beaver skins.
Captain Lee, with Carson, and their accompanying band, having reached the Snake river encampment, readily sold all his goods, taking his pay in beaver skins.
The trappers purchased of the Mission sixty horses, paying for them in beaver skins, which always had a cash value.
Northern Neck records about 1656 show that Colonel Nathaniel Pope offered to go security for John Washington "in beaver skins.
He had done well as a merchant, trading with Maryland, around the Potomac and up the Bay at Kent Island, but now the fur trade was on the wane and tobacco was taking the place of beaver skins as currency.
John's new friend, Pope, offered to go his bond in beaver skins.
On his return to Quebec, Champlain declared that certain sailors had appropriated a number of beaver skins, and he therefore confiscated them and had them placed in the store, pending the decision of the company.
In the meantime the English crew robbed the convent of the Jesuits, but they did not find the beaver skins, as they expected.
The furs they supplied were principally beaver skins at five shillings (or one dollar) per pound.
Simonds and White sent on an average 4,000 beaver skins to New England every year, it is manifest that the fur trade of the river was a matter of some consequence.
While he was thus checked in his operations, the reward of a plentiful harvest of beaver skins [which he had made possible] went {99} to another rather than himself.
At Fort La Jonquière he met a party of Western Indians, who told him that in the course of a war expedition they had encountered a number of Indians of a strange tribe carrying loads of beaver skins.
Give me money to pay my men,' he said, 'and goods to trade with the western tribes, and I will bring you rich returns in beaver skins.
Twelve, fifteen, eighteen months would often elapse without any tidings of them, when they would come sweeping their way down the Ottawa in full glee, their canoes laden down with packs of beaver skins.
This gentleman had a large quantity of beaver skins at his establishment, but did not think it prudent to take them with him fearing the levy of "black mail" at the falls.
Having collected a considerable quantity of beaver skins, they made them into packs, loaded their horses, and steered two hundred miles due east.
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