Excerpt from Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory, Vol. 1 of 2
Should h1s work contrlbute, m any de gree, to awaken the sympathy of the chi'is tlan world m behalf of the wretched and degraded Aborlgmes of thls vast terr1tory, should 1t tend m any way to expose, or to reform the abuses m the management of the Hudson's Bay Company, or to render lts mono poly less mjurlous to the natlves than hltherto 1t has been the wrlter's labour W111 have been amply compensated Interested as he st111 1s m that Company, w1th a con31derable stake dependmg on lts returns, 1t can scarcely be supposed that he has any 1ntentlon, wan touly or unnecessanly, to mjure lts 1nterests.
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Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnExcerpt from Notes of a Twenty-Five Years Service in the Hudson s Bay Territory, Vol. 1 of 2Should h1s work contrlbute, m any de gree, to awaken the sympathy of the chi is tlan world m behalf of the wretched and degraded . Codice articolo 2148091201
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