sentences:  The economic benefits of trade, and the separation of the carters' camp from the village below, may have helped keep relations civil.After about three weeks of trading, the "wild" carters from the north, now laden with goods, took their leave of the "den of blackguards" that was Saint Paul, returning to what they felt was a more civilized world.Their erstwhile hosts, on the other hand, thought their visitors were returning to an uncivilized and frozen wilderness.