Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: the bottom of the barrel

Lakeside Classics were really scraping the bottom of the barrel re-printing this one. This is mostly just a long list of whiny complaints about the author's hard-luck in his efforts to trade with the Indians. He made three attemmpts and lost his shirt big-time each time.There's some occasional nice material about frontier travel and interactions with the Indians, but the author's bitter, self-absorbed attitude always intrudes and spoils it. Charles Larpenteur's narrative and Chardon's journal shared this miserable attitude. After all, these guys weren't out there for their health, selflessly bringing civilized enlightenment to the poor savages. It was a rough and tumble life and they took a lot of hard knocks, and some of them didn't take it with much good grace.You're better off reading Ross Cox (but beware for the Narrative Press edition) or Alexander MacKenzie's journal, or just about anything besides this bad-smelling item.