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Some of the shiftless Indians may be hopelessly in 

 debt to the company for advanced provisions, but if the 

 company had not made these advances the Indians 

 would have starved, and the debt is never exacted by 

 seizure of the hunt that should go to feed a family. 



Of how many other creditors may that be said ? Of 

 how many companies that it has cared for the sick, 

 sought the lost, fed the starving, housed the homeless ? 

 With all its faults, that is the record of the Hudson s 

 Bay Company. 



