Unlike other slaving trading posts, nothing was ever built on the island after its abandonment in the mid-1800s.

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You wouldn't know it until you tried to use your dollars at the official hard currency trading posts, but by then you were out of luck.

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As a result of all this, there were about 975 securities affected by an overqueuing of message traffic sent to five trading posts on the trading floor, which resulted in a late close for those posts.

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Back in the 16th Century, the point where the St Lawrence River tightens became a base for a rogue collection of hard-bitten survivalists, who spent months venturing deep into the heart of Innu territory to the trading posts at Lac St-Jean.

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Working in Google's Mountain View, Calif. headquarters means Fredinburg is no stranger to West Coast quakes, but when your lodging in Nepal consists of seismically unsound trading posts built out of stones, natural disasters are a whole other story.

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Set up trading posts.

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