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1900
Many of them engaged in the infamous scalp-traffic--a peculiar branch of the fur trade inaugurated by the French commanders and prosecuted on the other side only by way of reprisal--and collected scalps among their Indian friends as methodically as they had formerly collected beaver-skins.