Clothing of sea-otter skins of priceless value, which afterwards proved a fortune to those who survived, and food of the flesh of the great sea-cow, saved a remnant of the wretched crew.
The Indians had not counted on their prey escaping by sea, and an old chief came suavely aboard offering Gray sea-otter skins if the 'Bostonnais' would go ashore to trade.
In 1787 Portlock and Dixon had secured almost two thousand sea-otter skins as far north as the Queen Charlotte Islands.
At one point off Prince of Wales Island, the Indians willingly traded two hundred otter skins, worth eight thousand dollars, for an old iron chisel.
Twenty natives in sea-otter skins stood by watching the ceremony of flag unfurled and the land of their fathers being declared the possession of England.
During our absence, a brisk trade had been carrying on with the Chinese for the sea-otter skins, which had every day been rising in their value.
The barter which had been carrying on with the Chinese for sea-otter skins, had produced a very whimsical change in the dress of all our crew.
He said there was nothing to fear; that they only wished to buy sea-otter skins, and to give us glass beads and other riches for them.
Our people, dazzled by the sight of such quantities of goods, left their weapons in the bidarkas and went to the Russians with the sea-otter skins.
The story is best told by Meares: “Such as were dressed in furs instantly stripped themselves, and in return for a moderate quantity of large spike-nails we received sixty fine sea-otter skins.
Any sort of beads, however, appeared to be in high estimation with these people; and they readily gave whatever they had in exchange for them, even their fine sea-otter skins.
Upon this Korovin ordered the men to arms, and soon after seventy natives approached and held up some sea-otter skins.
The clothes of the women and children are made of sea-otter skins, in the same form as those belonging to the men.
In the spring of the same year, they had touched upon an unknown island, probably one of the Aleütians, where several of the inhabitants were prevailed upon to pay a tribute of sea-otter skins.
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