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Company rule in Louisiana left the colony without fortifications, arms, munitions, or supplies.
The difficulties of trade had ruined many voyageurs, and numbers of them had gone to live with the natives and rear half-blood families.
Others left the country, and there was no one familiar with the Indian trade.
If this trade should be resumed, the habitants who had come to be farmers or artisans, and soldiers discharged from the army, must be hardened to the severe life of coureurs de bois.
This was a slow and difficult course, and French trade suffered from the many mistakes of the new group of traders.
These men were without capital or experience.
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