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La Vérendrye's experience and capacity as a fur-trader, gained at this post of La Gabelle, led the governor of the colony to offer him, in the year 1726, the command of an important trading fort on Lake Nipigon, north of Lake Superior. With his great project of western exploration always in mind, he eagerly accepted the offer.
It is easier to dress a skin in winter than in summer, but summer-made leather wears better, for the reason that the roots of the hair run all through a summer skin; whereas in winter the roots show only on the outer side; that is why a fur-trader when looking only at the inner side can tell whether a skin has been taken in winter or summer.
Joliet, the companion of Marquette, in his ever-memorable voyage to the Mississippi, was a type of the best class of the Canadian fur-trader. In 1671 Sieur St.
Three years passed away, during which period Mackenzie, being busily occupied with his arduous duties as a fur-trader, could not carry out the more noble purposes of discovery on which his heart was set. But a time at length arrived when circumstances permitted him to turn his eyes once more with a set purpose on the unknown wilderness of the West.
"What's wrong, Mr Smart?" he asked, on coming up. The fur-trader pointed to the ground, on which lay a group of men, who, at a first glance, appeared to be dying. One in particular, a youth, seemed to be in the very last stage of exhaustion. Smart had just risen from his side after administering a cup of hot tea, when the trapper appeared.
The oars were dipped, and the Willow Creek mansion was soon but a speck on the horizon of the watery waste. And now the old fur-trader learned the full extent of the desolation with which it had pleased God to visit the settlement at that time.
You have no need to hurry, for Marie does not know you are coming, so of course she can't be impatient." Mr Grant said this with a laugh, for he knew the state of Jasper's heart, and understood why he was so anxious to hasten away. "Besides," continued the fur-trader, "Mr Heywood has not half finished the drawing of my fort, which he began yesterday, and I want him to make me a copy of it."
The Indian period of our history possesses a charm peculiarly its own. When European explorers first visited our shores the Indian roamed at pleasure through his broad forest domain. Its wealth of attractions were as yet unknown to the hunter, the fisherman and the fur-trader. Rude as he was the red man could feel the charms of the wilderness in which he dwelt.
"All right, father," exclaimed the boy, while a bright smile lit up his features and displayed two rows of white teeth: "I'll be particularly careful," and he sprang into the light vehicle, seized the reins, and with a sharp crack of the whip dashed down the road at a hard gallop. "He's a fine fellow that son of yours," said Mr Grant, "and will make a first-rate fur-trader."
The cunning Indian put on a pretended look of surprise on beholding it, and then the usual expression of stolid gravity settled on his face as he turned to Mr Pemberton for information. "Your hand did this," said the fur-trader. "Is Darkeye a dog that he should slay an old man?" said the savage. "No, you're not a dog," cried Jasper fiercely; "you are worse a cowardly murderer?"
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