If he were a Jew he should be called the wandering Jew.
Trade is conducted on the barter principle, furs being low and goods high.

The risks are great, transport is costly, and money is a long time invested before it returns.

The palmy days of the fur trade are over; the product has greatly diminished, and competition has reduced the percentage of profit on the little that remains.
There was a time in the memory of man when furs formed the currency of Kamchatka.

Their employment as cash is not unknown at present, although Russian money is in general circulation.
[Illustration: CHANGE FOR A DOLLAR] There is a story of a traveler who paid his hotel bill in a country town in Minnesota and received a beaver skin in change.

The landlord explained that it was legal tender for a dollar.