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Brot. forward 525 $ 46,950 



- ^200 8000 



280 5600 



60 120 



8 32 

 75 



SO 1600 



64,877 



The above prices are, we believe, those of the Montreal 

 market. This statement establishes the average value of 

 the packs at about one hundred dollars, and if we exclude 

 the buffalo robes, which are sold at forty dollars a pack, 

 the other furs will average upwards of two hundred dol- 

 lars. The amount of the less valuable furs, such as those 

 of wolves, wolverines, rabbits, &c. might be increased if 

 there were a market for them. 



In addition to these, the country supplies annually one 

 thousand bags of pounded buffalo meat, (Pemmican,*) va- 



* Pemmican is the meat of the buffalo, prepared for preservation in 

 tJie following manner : The flesh is cut into thin slices, which are 

 jerked in the sun or smoke, the latter being preferable ; it is then dried 

 before the fire until it becomes crisp, after which it is laid upon one 

 stone, and pounded witli another fixed into a wooden handle ; after it 

 has been reduced into as fine a powder as possible, which is, however, 

 far from being very minute, it is mixed up with an equal weight of buf- 

 falo grease, or marrow fat poured on when hot and liquid. Before the 

 mixture cools, it is introduced into skin bags, and well shaken, so that 

 it may settle into a compact mass. Sometimes, in order to give it a 



