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packet Indian Fur Trade, Hist. 
an Indian serng as a packet man.
- 1916 The Hudson's Bay Company had established a very useful line of communications between their several factories by means of what were called Packet Indians; these were each of two Indian men, who left each Factory with letters to arrive at the next Factory about the expected time of the arrival of the Ship at such factory.
- 1916 The Hudson's Bay Company had established a very useful line of communications between their several factories by means of what were called Packet Indians; these were each of two Indian men, who left each Factory with letters to arrive at the next Factory about the expected time of the arrival of the Ship at such factory.