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so prodioally supplied with sea-otters, when one of 

 their principal haunts yields but fourteen skins 

 annually at the utmost. We learnt from a clerk of 

 the Seal Fisheries stores that the entire population 

 of Petropavlovsk had been on foot that winter for 



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more than two months, with all the "Winchesters" 

 and cartridges that could be mustered in the place, 

 in pursuit of a couple of blue foxes which had taken 

 up their abode in the proximity of the village, but 

 that all attempts to secure them had proved fruitless. 

 The shop of the Company seemed to us fairly well 



