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bands of robbers, consisting of fugitive criminals and slaves,
and various adventurers who were actuated by no other
motives than those of extorting from the natives as much
as possible of their precious furs, and of plundering the
prehistoric graves of their treasures of silver and gold.
The victories obtained over the natives did not depend on
any higher degree of civilisation on the part of the
invaders—on the contrary, the natives almost invariably
stood on a higher level both morally and otherwise than
their conquerors—but on the fact that the Russians
possessed firearms, and were animated by an insatiable
rapacity, which urged them onwards, not only through the
wildernesses of Siberia, but over the northern Pacific to
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| native fox-trap. |
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