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were running down in physique, the Company brought 

 in a strain of pure Huskies or Eskimo. When the 

 Albany River Indians were starving and unable to 

 hunt, the Company gave the order for 5,000 lodge 

 poles. Then, not knowing how else to turn them to 

 account, commissioned the Indians to work them into 

 a picket garden-fence. At all times the native found 

 a father in the Company, and it was the worst thing 

 that ever happened the region when the irresponsible 

 free-traders with their demoralizing methods were 

 allowed to enter and traffic where or how they pleased. 



Indian Pilot. May 19, 1907 



