01-150: Trade Goods

By Dorthea Calverley
For his second great trip Mackenzie brought back things that experience had shown him were need to trade. For trading purposes he had acquired:

Coarse woolen blankets of various sizes

Small arms

Muskets

Ammunition

Gunpowder

*Tobacco

Cotton goods made in Manchester and brought with him across the Atlantic

Linens and coarse sheetings

*Thread

Lines

Twine

Common hardware

Cutlery and ironmongery [sic] of several descriptions

Kettles of brass and copper

Kettles of sheet-iron

Silk and cotton handkerchiefs

*Hats, shoes, and hose [stockings]

*Beads

Bread

Biscuits

Rice and molasses

 

The starred items in the list above were also brought to be given as presents; also

 

Buttons

Brass wire

Chisels

Needles

Knives

Scissors

Apples(!)