West wind, Portaged west 1 1/2 miles, with two little lakes to help.
Portaged 2 miles to river on our south; good paddling save for a rapid now and then.
Portaged one load each 4 miles south side of stream to open water.
In a wonderfully short time the outfit had been portaged across, and we were again in the canoes, the quest now being, not for the inlet but for the outlet of the lake, a much less difficult task.
Portaged to small shoal lakes and camped on north side, ready to start in A.
The strip of water between it and the foot of White Horse Rapids is treacherously bad, so they portaged where they could not line, and skirted the famous chutes.
Accordingly, having first portaged their goods, they lined the skiff carefully through foaming white-water down to Lake Bennett, where they again embarked.
Around the worst places we portaged the whole outfit, canoe and all.
The rest of us portaged the outfit two hundred yards to the boat, which, owing to Steve's miscalculations as to the tide, we found high and dry on the rocks.
We portaged around a few short rapids, and then, about eight miles above our camp, came upon a lake expansion of considerable size with many inlets.
It was still early in the morning when we arrived at the point where we had portaged into the river.
We portagedall day through gullies and swamps and over rough ridges, covering in all about two miles and a half.
Immediately below the point where we portaged into the river, wooded ridges on either side hugged it close, forming a narrow valley.
While George and I portaged around the last rapid that evening, Hubbard caught fifty trout averaging over a pound each.
Forty miles we had portagedfrom Lake Disappointment.
The brooks into which Goose Creek divided near our camp of course would not permit of canoeing, and the morning after our feast (August 4) we portaged through a swamp into the lake that fed the southerly one.
We portaged this day to another of our old camps by a small lake.
We portaged into it on Tuesday morning (August 25).
From the northwesterly end of Lake Disappointment we portaged on Friday (August 28) across a neck of land to two small, shallow lakes that lay to the northward, and in the teeth of a gale paddled to the northern shore of the farther lake.
Early in the forenoon we reached rapids and quickly portaged around them; all were short, the largest being not more than half a mile.
At the last rapid we portaged the country had flattened out.
The gathering dusk of evening found all material and one boat at this spot, with the other one at the head of the rapid, to be portaged the next day.
This locality is credited with being the scene of the first fatality which overtook the Brown-Stanton expedition; Brown being upset and drowned in the next rapid which followed, after having portaged the Soap Creek Rapid.
Meantime, albeit slowly, the cargoes of the scows and of the steamer were being portaged by wagon over the sixteen miles of flat timbered country.
Every pound of all that stuff is to be portaged across the Smith's Landing portage, and the Mountain Portage, and even at Grand Island, just below here, if the water is low.
Unable to find the tender at this the last lock on our course, we portaged after the manner of old-time canoeists, and set out upon the home stretch of six miles.
Heretofore we had considerately portaged every one of these obstructions, except at Princeton, where we went through under the "Ellen Hardy's" wing.
We portaged around the island end of the Neenah dam and met the customary shallows below the obstruction.
Camp was moved and our entire outfit portaged to the first small lake.
The brunt of the storm soon passed, but a steady rain continued as we paddled through the lake and portaged across a short neck of land into a larger lake, down which we paddled to a small round island near its lower end.
These we approached with the greatest care, and portaged around the worst places.
At one o'clock on July first, half our outfit was portaged to the summit of the hill and we ate our dinner there in the broiling sun, for we were above the trees, which ended some distance below us.
In the morning we portaged our outfit two miles, and removed our camp to the second one of the series of lakes which Easton and I had seen from the hill, and the fourth lake after leaving the Nascaupee River.
We had portaged through a valley and over a low ridge to the shores of a pond, out of which a small stream ran to the southeast.
The next day we portagedthrough a marsh and into the lake country and made some progress, portaging from lake to lake across swampy and marshy necks.
Seven or eight miles above the rapid around which we had portaged we passed into a large expansion of the river which the Indians at Northwest River Post had told us to look for, and which they called Wuchusknipi (Big Muskrat) Lake.
On October fifteenth we portaged around a series of low falls, below which was a small lake expansion with a river flowing into it from the east.
There are no rapids on important rivers in temperate America that have not been portaged more or less for ages.
In a few loads each, the stuff was portaged across, and the canoe was carried over and moored to the bank.
Canadians, portaged around the Falls and run on the British register from Queenston to Kingston as the Lady Washington.
Norman McCauley built the tram, and outfits were portaged around the canyon and the rapids two seasons; then the railroad come in and the tram went out of business.
From the river Des Plaines they portaged their canoes to the Chicago river and descended it to Lake Michigan.
On the 13th of March he and his two helpers broke camp and portaged their canoe to the Des Plaines.
This train took me and my men on and stopped at Gemai where we found several boats which had been portaged on cars.
Even Joliet's Iroquois guide, although well acquainted with the easier route, had not dared to go to the Niagara outlet but had followed the Grand River from its northern shores and then portaged to Lake Ontario.
He portaged from this stream or creek across a narrow strip of prairie, only a mile wide, to the Wisconsin River, a tributary of the Mississippi.
Through this paradise of plenty they passed, up one of the branches of the Illinois, till within a few miles of Lake Michigan, where they portaged a thousand paces to a creek that emptied into the lake of the Illinois.
One day in the latter part of October I portaged my bark canoe over the divide into another chain of lakes, with the object of ascertaining if there were any beaver in that section.
D'Iberville could keep his men together only by firing guns through the fog and holding hands in a chain as the two crews portaged across the soft ice.
Taking a canoe and three of his best men, Radisson paddled and portaged over this route to the Nelson.
There were forest paths well known to the Indians, by which they portagedtheir canoes and goods from one water stretch to another.
Patterson's Creek was however still frozen over on the 26th March, when, having portaged their goods and canoes to the lake, they embarked to resume their westward journey.
We ran two or three light rapids, and portaged the loads by another.
The following day, April 6, we portaged past another set of rapids, which proved to be the last of the rapids of the chasm.
We caught her lower down; and with 200 men portaged her over a rocky hill, across the neck of land formed by the curve of the Bab, then laid her keel upwards across two other boats, and so floated, took her up to Gemai dockyard.
At the big Cataracts were stationed working parties, which emptied the boats of gear and cargo, portagedthem overland, and hauled the boats through the rapids.
Above here we paddled through several small marshy ponds and portaged past a small fall.
A narrow trail led them across a high divide, seamed by deep gullies, where stunted pines and juniper grew among the rocks, and they portaged the loads by stages, carrying part for an hour or two, and then going back.
As we paddled and portaged through the woods I felt I'd got into another world.
I understand they only kept together until they had portaged their outfit across the divide.
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