A hundred dollars, in Winnipeg, would buy as much as an Indian trapper could get at the Post for a thousand dollars' worth of fur, and five hundred dollars is a good catch.

It is terrible, but what can I do?
I dare not buy their furs and sell them for my people, because the Company would blacklist the whole lot and it would be a great calamity in the end.

But if I had money--if I could do it with my own...." David had been thinking of that.

In the late January snow two teams went down to Thoreau in place of one.

Mukoki had charge of them, and with him went an even half of what David had brought with him--fifteen hundred dollars in gold certificates.
"If I live I'm going to make them a Christmas present of twice that amount each year," he said.