Horses or mules were essential, a riding horse for each man and at least one for carrying supplies and furs.

To expedite messages the express messengers would often speed ahead of the main bodies carrying supplies and furs.

An inland boat, the York boat, was used to carry furs, trade goods along inland waterways in Rupert's Land and the Columbia District.

"Good," Jennawil said, and they carried furs into the payload shell.

Most of them carried skins or furs to sit on and leather bottles or hollowed-out gourds of beer.

Before burning the villages, they had looted, gathering plunder which they needed 80 horses to carry: furs for trade, pewter, tea sets, clothing, everything the people held.

We carried malt and sealskin, furs and salt meat, iron-ore and fleeces.

On January 30, 1815 Bering, a Company ship carrying furs worth around 100,000 roubles, dropped anchor near Waimea.

In the spring they would carry furs from these remote outposts back to the rendezvous posts.

The "Bostons" carried Canadian and Alaskan furs across the ocean to exchange for ivory and patterned china in Canton.