watch enough (these are Montreal engagees.)

The North men while here live in tents of different sizes pitched at random, the people of each post having a camp by themselves and through their camp passes the road of the portage[.] They are seperated from the Montrealers by a brook[.] The Portage is three leagues from one navigation to the other which caused great expense and trouble to the company[.] The men have six Livers of this currency for every peice of Goods or pack of Furrss they carry from one end of it to the other[.] [T]he currency of the North west is double that of Canada which currency had its origine, I presume, from the mens' wages being paid formerly paid in peltries and it was supposed that one liver's worth of Furs would be worth two livers to the person that to took it to Montreal to be paid[.] The currency existed long before the North West Company had a being and I believe before Canada was taken from the French.

All the buildings within the Fort are sixteen

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