. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . e car-ried to the inte-rior are read andre-read till theydrop to pieces. How dothey transportthe goods andfurs to and cannot go safely ? Certainly they do, and they go around them byking portages, as it is called. They have boatscan carry a cargo of between three and fourand each boat has a crew of nine men. Whencome to a cataract that cannot be passed bythe boat, the latter is hauledashore, and both boat and cargoare carried around the obstruc-tion. Then, too, it is sometimesnecessary to cross a height of landbetween two streams, and th
. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . e car-ried to the inte-rior are read andre-read till theydrop to pieces. How dothey transportthe goods andfurs to and cannot go safely ? Certainly they do, and they go around them byking portages, as it is called. They have boatscan carry a cargo of between three and fourand each boat has a crew of nine men. Whencome to a cataract that cannot be passed bythe boat, the latter is hauledashore, and both boat and cargoare carried around the obstruc-tion. Then, too, it is sometimesnecessary to cross a height of landbetween two streams, and thesame operation is cargo is in packages, weigh-ing one hundredpounds each, andthe cargo for aboat consists ofseventy-five ofthese packagesor pieces. Incrossing a port-age, each man issupposed to beable to carry 50 THE YOUNG NIMEODS. two of these packages: he arranges them so that the weight lies alonghis back from the crown of his head to the hips. A broad band ofleather, called a portage strap, passes across his forehead, and the ends of. MAKING A PORTAGE. the strap are brought together to hold the pieces in place. Tims burdened,they go steadily along; and as they are all robust and healthy, the workevidently agrees with them. This conversation occurred partly while Joe was arranging his musk-rat traps, and partly as they walked slowly along by the bank of the Harry started, as though he had been bitten by a snake, andshouted, See there ! See there ! Whats that ? THE RABBIT AT HOME. 51 The rest of the party looked in the direction where Harry rabbit was fleeing across the snow as fast as his legs would carry him,and in a very few seconds he had disappeared over the brow of a boys wished to go in pursuit of him, but were checked by Joe andthe Doctor. It would beof no use, said the for- mer, to try to overtakehim. He can rim fartherin an hour than you couldin three, and it is quite like-ly that by this time he issafe in his den.
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