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PERSONAL NARRATIVE.7
leading articles of trade, such as blankets, cloths, powder, rifles, &c, were miserable. The blankets were small and thin, weighing but half the weight of an English trader's blanket; the cloths also were this and worse, so narrow that two yards would not make a match-i-co-ta for a squaw and the calico would not, from age, hold together. The traps were good for nothing; the springs would break but the government furnished a blacksmith under charge of Mr. Johnson, the factor, who
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