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And it wasn't as if the Strange One didn't know the value of sea-otter; he was an Indian of some sort, and what little he talked showed he'd been among white men.
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Russians once anchored here and hunted sea-otter before the first
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And it wasn't as if the Strange One didn't know the value of sea-otter; he was an Indian of some sort, and what little he talked showed he'd been among white men.
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T here was the indefatigable John Ledyard, "one of the most curious and intriguing characters in early American exploration history," who recognized the riches to be made from sea-otter fur and tried repeatedly to launch trading expeditions beginning in the 1780s.
The Riches Came Pelting Down Michael Taube 2010
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The fur trade benefited from his clever navagational instincts and his unquenchable desire to locate the finest of sea-otter furs.
The Riches Came Pelting Down Michael Taube 2010
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(Source: Smithsonian and USGS) 1882: Two reserves, for sable and sea-otter, established by imperial decree in south Kamchatka;
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‘Where is the sea-otter, John Davies, that destroyed more fish than any sealch upon Ailsa Craig?’ exclaimed a third voice.
Redgauntlet 2008
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It was a magnificent sea-otter, an enhydrus, the only exclusively marine quadruped.
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A small sea-otter is very numerous; this animal does not feed exclusively on fish, but, like the seals, draws a large supply from a small red crab, which swims in shoals near the surface of the water.
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Of mammalia, besides whales and seals, there is one bat, a kind of mouse (Reithrodon chinchilloides), two true mice, a ctenomys allied to or identical with the tucutuco, two foxes (Canis Magellanicus and C. Azaræ), a sea-otter, the guanaco, and a deer.
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