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THE CHARACTER AND INFLUENCE OF THE INDIAN TRADE...

The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin is a book by Frederick Jackson
Turner. Turner was an American historian and author here delving into the Indian trade between
early European settlers and the indigenous of America. Excerpt: The chroniclers of the earliest
voyages to the Atlantic coast abound in references to this traffic. First of Europeans to
purchase native furs in America appear to have been the Norsemen who settled Vinland. In the
saga of Eric the Red we find this interesting account: Thereupon Karlsefni and his people
displayed their shields  and when they came together they began to barter with each other.
Especially did the strangers wish to buy red cloth  for which they offered in exchange peltries
and quite grey skins. They also desired to buy swords and spears  but Karlsefni and Snorri
forbade this. In exchange for perfect unsullied skins the Skrellings would take red stuff a
span in length  which they would bind around their heads. So theirtrade went on for a time 
until Karlsefni and his people began to grow short of cloth  when they divided it into such
narrow pieces that it was not more than a finger's breadth wide  but the Skrellings still
continued to give just as much for this as before  or more.

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