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satisfaction for the remaining time. Contract may be renewed, if servants or 

 labourers wish, at expiry of term. Salary advanced forty shillings, if men have 

 behaved well in first term. The land and sea officers' and tradesmen's salaries 

 do not vary, but seamen's are raised in time of war.' 



" A ship of 200 tons burden, bearing provisions, arrives yearly in August or 

 early September. Sails again in ten days, wind permitting, with cargo and 

 those returning. Sailors alone get pay when at home. 



" The annual trade sent home from this fort is from ten to four thousand 

 made beaver, in furs, pelts, castorum, goose feathers, and quills, and a small 

 quantity of train oil and whale bone, part of which they receive from the 

 Eskimos, and the rest from the white whale fishery. A black whale fishery is 

 in hand, but it shows no progress." ("The Remarkable History of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company." By George Bryce, 1900, pp. 108-9.)] 



