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Government House, I hurried with Littledale to 

 Messrs. Crompton and Schwabe's office. INIr. Schwabe, 

 to whom we were so much indebted for all the infor- 

 mation concerning our steamer, was away in the 



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northern seas on a fur errand. His clerk showed us 

 several hundreds of sable skins, which had recently, 

 been brought in for sale by a wealthy Yakout mer- 

 chant. They are usually sold in lots of ten where 

 two or three lower-class skins are invariably mixed 

 up with the better ones, and a general price is agreed 



