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PERSONAL NARRATIVE.37
daily. I was kept from morning to night weighing and paying in goods, no opposition within five hundred miles. Lieutenant Prior, formerly •of the U. S. Army, was carrying on a smelting furnace. He formerly got his goods from Mackinac until the embargo was laid, and supplies through that source were cut off. At this time he had collected of the Indians a large quantity of lead for which he had paid provisions and some goods. I
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