From Curry's time (1766) they began to erect posts or depots at important points to carry on their trade.

Around these posts the voyageurs built a few cabins and this new centre of trade afforded a spot for the encampment near by of the Indian teepees made of tanned skins.

The meeting of the savage and the civilized is ever a contact of peril.

Among the traders or officers of the Fur trade a custom grew up--not sanctioned by the decalogue--but somewhat like the German Morganatic marriage.

It was called "Marriage of the Country." By this in many cases the trader married the Indian wife; she bore children to him, and afterwards when he retired from the country, she was given in real marriage to some other voyageur, or other employee, or pensioned off.