"The pedlers
call'd Coureurs de Bois export from hence every year several canows full of
Merchandise which they dispose of among all the Nations of the Continent by way
of exchange for Beaver-Skins. I saw twenty-five or thirty of these Canows
return with heavy Cargoes; each Canow was managed by two or three men and
carry'd twenty hundred weight, forty packs of Beaver Skins which are worth a
hundred Crowns apiece. These canows have been a year or 18 months out."
"Short,
thick, tireless men who resembled fiends in the oppressive heat, their shirts
off, their skins like heated copper and their long black hair loose with their
wild, black eyes glowing like coals."
Anonymous French
Officer.
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