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  • No man in England could get a Patent for an Indian-rubber band, or an iron-hoop, without feeing all of them.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • They will thankfully barter as many salmon as will feed a ship's crew one day for a file or two, or needles, or a tin-canister, or piece of old iron-hoop, or any trifling article of hardware; and so long as the vessel remains, they and other tribes of their kindred will frequently visit it, and bring animals and fish to barter for what is literally almost valueless to European adventurers.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852 Various 1841

  • We occasionally exchanged pieces of iron-hoop for two other kinds of fish, the one a bream, the other a barbel, with the natives, and the eagerness with which they met our advances to barter, is a strong proof of their natural disposition towards this first step in civilization.

    Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832

  • We occasionally exchanged pieces of iron-hoop for two other kinds of fish, the one a bream, the other a barbel, with the natives, and the eagerness with which they met our advances to barter, is a strong proof of their natural disposition towards this first step in civilization.

    Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume 2 Charles Sturt 1832

  • Most of them that we saw were about the breadth and thickness of an iron-hoop, and their singular form marks that they are not of European make.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Robert Kerr 1784

  • Only then will I be willing to don the iron-hoop crown he wore and undertake the duties of a king.”

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

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