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  • Along many a thousand miles of river and tributary he built trading-posts and warehouses.

    CHAPTER 5 2010

  • Both were isolated trading-posts, Sixty Mile and Fort Selkirk.

    Chapter IV 2010

  • With a cargo of fine Venetian textiles and refined sugar, the _Volpe d'Oro_ sailed into the Adriatic, bound east for the trading-posts of the Levant.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Boys and men were fairly tearing in from all sections with orders from panic-struck brokers to sell, sell, sell, and later with orders to buy; the various trading-posts were reeling, swirling masses of brokers and their agents.

    The Financier 2004

  • Portugal established trading-posts and colonies in the East, and built up there a great empire, -- like that which England is maintaining in the same region at the present day.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

  • -- Along the different routes pursued by their ships, and upon the coasts visited by them, the Phoenicians established naval stations and trading-posts.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

  • One of the most notable incidents of the new administration was the capture of the fortified trading-posts belonging to the English Company of Hudson's Bay, by the

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • In trading-posts up and down the coast where the trappers and prospectors gather to outfit, many tales of the White Chief were afloat: his trips to the Outside [1]; his lavish spending of money; his hiring of private cars to take him from Seattle to New York; his princely entertainment of beautiful women.

    Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

  • The French in the valley of the St. Lawrence looked with jealousy on these efforts of the English to establish themselves at the north, and Le Moyne d'Iberville, that daring Canadian, had destroyed their trading-posts.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • In order to facilitate the trading operations of its members, the League established in different parts of the world trading-posts and warehouses.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

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