 | Joseph Schafer - Alaska - 1904 - 544 pages
...brought round by us, and retail it among themselves at a real (12}4 cents) by the small wine glass. Their hides, too, which they value at two dollars in money, they barter for something which costs seventy-five cents in Boston ; and buy shoes (as like as not made... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana - Seafaring - 1909 - 440 pages
...Boston and brought round by us, at an immense price, and retail it among themselves at a real (12^/2 cents) by the small wine-glass. Their hides, too,...costs seventy-five cents in Boston ; and buy shoes (like as not, made of their own hides, and which have been carried twice around Cape Horn) at three... | |
 | Tomás Almaguer - History - 1994 - 300 pages
...in grapes, yet they buy bad wine made in Boston and brought round by us, at an immense price. . . . Their hides too, which they value at two dollars in...been carried twice round Cape Horn) at three and four dollars."22 Dana was not the only European American who judged the Mexican ranchero class harshly for... | |
 | Rosaura Sánchez - History - 1995 - 358 pages
...goods on the capitalist market: Their hides . . . which they value at two dollars in money, they barter for something which costs seventy-five cents in Boston;...dollars, and "chicken-skin boots" at fifteen dollars a pair.31 Alvarado too assures us in his text that Hartnell made a profit of 600 percent off the hides... | |
 | Lisbeth Haas - History - 1995 - 300 pages
...brought round by us. . . . Their hides, too, which they value at two dollars in money, . . . buy shoes (like as not made of their own hides, which have been carried twice round Cape Horn) at three and four dollars."13 Yet the Californios, for their part, saw this situation to be a sensible one given the... | |
 | Richard Mackie - History - 1997 - 450 pages
...price, bad wine made in Boston and brought round by us, and retail it among themselves at a real (12 1A cents) by the small wine-glass. Their hides, too, which they value at two dollars in money, they barter for something which costs seventy-five cents in Boston.'64 The Columbians echoed and enlarged... | |
 | Diana Karter Appelbaum, Diana Muir - Business & Economics - 2000 - 350 pages
...make nothing for themselves . . . Their hides, which they value at two dollars in money, they barter for something which costs seventy-five cents in Boston,...of their own hides, which have been carried twice around Cape Horn) at three and four dollars. Mexican California in 1834 was very different from Cambridge,... | |
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Their hides, too, which they value at two dollars in money, they barter for something which costs seventyfive cents in Boston; and buy shoes (as like as not made of their own hides, which have been carried twice round Cape Horn) at three and four dollars,... 