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Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar

CHAPTER V
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After a few years of conflict, peace was declared, and trade became prosperous.

The Company occupied Russian America and the Aleutian Islands, and pushed its traffic to the Arctic Ocean.

It established posts on the Kurile Islands, in Kamchatka, and along the coast of the Ohotsk Sea.

It built churches, employed priests, and was quite successful in converting the natives to Christianity.
Having a monopoly of trade and being the law giver to the natives, the Company had things in pretty much its own way.

The governor at Sitka was the autocrat of all the American Russians.


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