Forty-two years amongst the Indians and Eskimo (Illustrated Edition)

In the year 1670, a few English gentlemen, ''the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading to Hudson''s Bay,'' obtained a charter from King Charles II. The company consisted of but nine or ten merchants. They made large profits by bartering English goods with the Indians of those wild, and almost unknown, regions for furs of the fox, otter, beaver, bear, lynx, musk, minx, and ermine.T...