NORTHERN OCEAN. 
thern traders have the confcience at times to ex- 
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act fomething more. It is at this extravagant “-~~Y 
price that all the Copper and Dog-ribbed Indians, 
who traffic with our yearly traders, fupply them- 
felves with iron-work, &c.. 
From thofe two tribes our Northern Indians 
ufed formerly to purchafe moft of the furrs they 
brought to the Company’s Factory; for their own 
‘country preducéd very few of thofe articles, 
and being, at that time, at war with the Southern 
Indians, they were prevented from penetrating 
far enough backwards to meet with many ani- 
mals of the furr kind; fo that deer-fkins, and 
fuch furrs as they could extort from the Copper 
and Dog-ribbed Indians, compofed the whole of 
their trade; which, on an average of many years, 
and indeed till very lately, feldom or ever exceed- 
ed fix thoufand Made Beaver per annum. 
At prefent happy it is for them, and greatly to 
the advantage of the Company, that they are in 
perfect peace, and live in friendfhip with their 
Southern neighbours. ‘The good effect of this 
harmony is already fo vifible, that within a few 
years the trade from that quarter has increafed 
many thoufands of Made Beaver annually ; fome 
years even to the amount of eleven thoufand 
fkins*. Befides the advantage arifing to the 
N Company 
* Since this Journal was written, the Northern Indians, by annually vi- 
fiting their Southern friends, the Athapufcow Indians, have contracted the 
’ {mall- 
July. 
