A great store of cows
1659 CE • Quebec, CA
“We weare well beloved, and [they] weare overjoyed that we promissed them to come with such shipps as we invented. This place hath a great store of cows [caribou]. The wild men kill them not except for necessary use.”
Pierre Esprit Radisson and Germaine Warkentin, Pierre-Esprit Radisson: The Collected Writings (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press) 2012, 287.
Image: Courtesy of NYPL, John Woodhouse Audubon
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