 We purchased while here about 1500 beaver, besides other skins, but took none but the best, having no thoughts at that time of using them to any other advantage than converting them to the purposes of cloathing, but it afterwards happened that skins which...  The Library of American Biography - Sivu 55tekijä(t) Jared Sparks - 1851Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1899 - 762 sivua
...it been sold in China it would have been worth thirty guineas. We purchased while here about 1,500 beaver, besides other skins, but took none but the...happened that skins which did not cost the purchaser six pence sterling sold in China for one hundred dollars. Neither did we purchase a quarter part of... | |
 | Charles Henry Carey - 1922 - 1032 sivua
...the best, having no thought at that time of using them to any other advantage than converting them to purposes of clothing; but it afterwards happened that skins which did not cost the purchaser six pence sterling sold in China for $100. Neither did we purchase a quarter part of the beaver and... | |
 | Charles Henry Carey - 1922 - 1036 sivua
...while here about 1,500 beavers, besides other skins, but took none but the best, having no thought at that time of using them to any other advantage than converting them to purposes of clothing; but it afterwards happened that skins which did not cost the purchaser six pence... | |
 | Oregon Historical Society - 1920 - 408 sivua
...and spruce beer." He happened also to purchase a supply of beaver skins from the natives, "holding no thoughts at that time of using them to any other advantage than converting them to purposes of clothing." He found a market for them in China at the rate of $100 for what cost him 6... | |
 | 1920 - 402 sivua
...and spruce beer." He happened also to purchase a supply of beaver skins from the natives, "holding no thoughts at that time of using them to any other advantage than converting them to purposes of clothing." He found a market for them in China at the rate of $100 for what cost him 6... | |
 | 1920 - 396 sivua
...and spruce beer." He happened also to purchase a supply of beaver skins from the natives, "holding no thoughts at that time of using them to any other advantage than converting them to purposes of clothing." He found a market for them in China at the rate of $100 for what cost him 6... | |
 | Oregon Historical Society - 1920 - 402 sivua
...and spruce beer." He happened also to purchase a supply of beaver skins from the natives, "holding no thoughts at that time of using them to any other advantage than converting them to purposes of clothing." He found a market for them in China at the rate of $100 for what cost him 6... | |
 | Oregon Historical Society - 1919 - 852 sivua
...and spruce beer." He happened also to purchase a supply of beaver skins from the natives, "holding no thoughts at that time of using them to any other advantage than converting them to purposes of clothing." He found a market for them in China at the rate of $100 for what cost him 6... | |
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