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Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
goods advanced to Indians and Eskimos to be paid for from their catch.
See: debt
Quotations
1739
. . . it is confessed that the Indians have considerable credit given them at the southern factory but here [Fort Prince of Wales] it is a trifle, and shall take care to break that custom as much as possible.
1800
The Beaver sent by these young men twenty-two skins of his credits and also three skins worth fresh meat; gave them each a piece of tobacco, a flint, &c, and sent the Beaver 1 1/2 foot of tabacco.
1889
In order to economise freight, and to enable the Indians to hunt at a distance, credits were often given payable at another fort.