A Northern Experience: The Journals of Norman Robinson
On the River Page 47

Wolf, Coyote, Wolverine and last, but by no means least, muskrat, which, to many people's taste, makes the prettiest, if not the most valuable, Fur Coat.

For Trading purposes, the animal is skinned and the pelt stretched on a board – fleshed – that is all the meat and fat are scraped off, and it is then left till dry. This is the same method which was used by the Hudson' Bay Company Coureurs – des – Bois in 1670 –

“The Gentlemen Adventurers trading in to Hudsons Bay”.

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