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Kuvaˊr

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  • 1-088 In 1882, Kuvaˊr, the richest trader of Indian Point, tried to buy a schooner
  • 1-089 met the schooner “Henrietta,” just bought by Kuvaˊr, and carried her off as
  • 1-089 she was lost in a storm in 1895. Kuvaˊr applied several times to the authori-ties
  • 1-089 Kuvaˊr gave for it the whalebone of two whales, a large pile of walrus-tusks,
  • 1-090 shore is fourteen. Indian Point has five, of which three belong to Kuvaˊr,
  • 1-093 present none of them equals in wealth Kuvaˊr and the other Eskimo traders
  • 1-099 reindeer-herds. Thus Kuvaˊr of Indian Point had two large herds that he had
  • 2-073 trader Kuvaˊr, and exchanged a coil of thong

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