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supplied with goods; that there were but few goods in the country, such as were necessary for the Indians & offered me goods as money as I wished; if sold to them they were to be . accounted for; if not sold, to be returned in the spring. I hired five Frenchmen and two discharged soldiers; the latter to build boats to transport my lead and fur and winter with me after erecting my trading house. I discharged the two Frenchmen, keeping the two Americans and a young half-breed as my
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