He told us we were the best fur handlers he had seen, and paid us two hundred dollars in American gold for what we had.

We then stored our traps in the garret of one of his warehouses, which was of stone, two stories and an attic, as we thought of making another trip to this country if all went well.
We now entered our skiff again and went on down the great river till we came to a place nearly opposite Mineral Point, when we gave our boat to a poor settler, and with guns and bundles on our backs took a straight shoot for home on foot.

The second day about dark we came in the edge of the town and were seen by a lot of boys who eyed us closely and with much curiosity, for we were dressed in our trapping suits.

They followed us, and as we went along the crowd increased so that when we got to Crum.

Lloyd's tavern the door was full of boys' heads looking at us as if we were a circus.