448 THE SENECA NATION 



Many European articles were not brought to the Senecas in 

 the regular course of trade, but as presents at councils. At the 

 council in the eastern village at which L,aSalle asked for a guide 

 to the Ohio, he gave as three presents a double barreled pistol, 

 ten kettles, twelve hatchets, four dozen knives and at least six 

 pounds of glass beads. 



Few records remain of the exportation of peltries. In 1632 

 the Dutch ship "Eendracht" was seized by the English and was 

 found to contain five thousand beaver skins. In 1645 a Dutch 

 ship arrived at Amsterdam with 2137 beaver skins. Governor 



European articles. Ax, knives, shears, spoon, awl and fish hooks. 



Dougan complained in 1687 that the fur trade of New York had 

 fallen off from 40,000 beaver skins besides other peltry, to 9,000 

 beaver and a few hundred other skins. 



French goods were much higher in price than English goods 

 of the same quality. 



In 1724 Cadwallader Colden and others prepared a report on 

 trade in which it was stated that the staple cloth called "strouds" 

 was sold "at Albany for 10£ a Piece. They were sold at Montreal 

 before this Act took Place, at 13£, 2s, 6d., and now they were 

 sold there for 25£ and upwards." Colden also states in "A 

 Memorial Concerning the Furr-Trade of the Province of New 

 York" that "generalljr all the Goods used in the Indian Trade, 

 except Gun-Powder, and a few Trinkets, are sold at Montreal 

 for twice their Yalue at Albanv.". 



