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PERSONAL NARRATIVE.5
instructions was given to Mr. Johnson as well as to all factors, for the Government had established trading houses as early as 1805 at Detroit, Chicago, Fort Wayne, Green Bay, Osage, Belle Fontaine on the Missouri and many other points; the object of which was to afford the Indian's goods a small profit, merely to cover all expenses. At that time the Mississippi country was filled with • British traders who sold goods at high prices. Their
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