These three cloths are not only waterproof and practically rot proof, but do not soak water, which is a feature for consideration where much portaging is to be done and camp is moved almost daily.
The sweater or Pontiac shirt eases the cutting effect of the paddles just as well as any of the special portaging pads, and the canoe can be handled more easily with it.
This is the easiest method of two-man portaging of which I know.
With this arrangement one man carries exactly as when portaging the canoe alone, save that he stands under the canoe just forward of the after thwart instead of the middle thwart, while the other man carries the bow upon one shoulder.
The last of the northmen arrived, the portaging was completed, the furs sorted and made into packages of ninety to one hundred pounds each, and everything was ready for the homeward trip.
The refugees launched their boat in a little lake the lads had found, and, after portaging around a beaver dam, paddled down a narrow stream to the great bay.
So they decided to cross the cove and go overland, portaging the canoe, to the bay the boys had found when they were searching for some trace of Nangotook.
Now came the tedious days of portaging the boats and baggage around the Falls.
The next day we portaged through a marsh and into the lake country and made some progress, portagingfrom lake to lake across swampy and marshy necks.
At the top he had the good fortune to stumble on a trail that was evidently used by Indians or other dwellers in the wilderness, probably by men portaging the length of bad water down the river.
The Indian nodded and proceeded to fill a pipe, whilst the white man, following the track made by many feet portaging from one river to the other, moved into the woods.
The method of portaging had to meet the physical limitation of the portage path and the matter was not so much one of standard procedure as of improvisation of the moment.
Canoes intended for portaging usually had one thwart at midlength to aid in lifting the canoe for the carry position.
As the landing was over-crowded the portaging began.
From the head of the lake another mile of good portaging brought us at last to waters flowing to Seal Lake, and we were again in the canoes to taste for a little the pleasures of going with the tide.
It was one o'clock when we started forward again, and all afternoon the portaging was exceedingly rough, making it slow, hard work getting the big pile of stuff forward.
Worked in it most of day, portaging 2 1/2 miles N.
They were very wild and fine, but fortunately they did not extend far, and about three-quarters of a mile of portaging would put us on smooth water again.
Besides, if you tried to go round in canoes, you'd be portaging or lining in a dozen places where I would drive this one straight through.
Almost worse than portaging the boat was the unspeakably toil-some task of packing the outfit over the boulders for a couple of hundred yards to where there was a quiet spot to load again.
It was another day of hard portaging on stomachs crying for food, and when we pitched our camp we were so exhausted that we staggered like drunken men.
Portaging over them had been most difficult and dangerous.
With difficulty we dragged the canoe to the launching place, and on the way found the cleaning rod Hubbard's father had made for him, which had been lost while we were portaging around the fall on our upward journey.
It was rough and painful portaging over rocks and knolls.
With the killing work in the blazing sun, swimming or portaging from the crack of dawn until dark, and a palm mat thrown on the sand-bar at night, it is small wonder that rarely a crew comes back from a trip with its full roster.
For one thing, it would have saved us portaging over this blamed divide.
Well, we set off with the canoe, paddling andportaging up rivers and across the height of land, toward the south.
The smooth green current of the water over the end of the concrete barrier tempted me for a moment to avoid portaging by letting down the empty boat on a line.
The portaging through swamps had affected La Salle's health, and he probably judged he could make quicker time unaccompanied by missionaries.
Across the jam from Rupert River dashed Iberville with his Indian bandits, portaging where the ice floes covered the water, paddling where lanes of clear way parted the floating drift.
Portaging two hundred and fifty flatboats with as many birch canoes up the river, the French invade the mountain wilderness of Lake George.
On one occasion, while portaging my canoe to another lake, I found several families of Indians camping at the end of the portage.
The next day the work of portaging began, as the whole cargo had to be transported sixteen miles to the lower end of the rapids.
We had now been in a half-starving condition for several days, and were beginning to lose the strength that we required for portaging and paddling against the continual north wind.
The three shared the toil of portaging over to Lac Du Longe where a baffling head-wind blew.
It effected a tremendous saving of time and portaging up the steep.
I starved once for a day and a night, did hard paddling and portaging all day and went supperless at night, simply because I could not get over the idea of "rat.
When portaging at a carrying place never when you get to the other end, put the canoe down at once, but let the man in front first scan carefully all about each side of the lake or river as far as the eye will carry.
We only ran in a clear course for ten minutes all told, and spent eight hours in portaging the loads past rapids down which the canoes were run; the balsa was almost swamped.
We spent March 3 and 4 and the morning of the 5th in portaging around the rapids.
The boys enjoyed the early morning paddle through the two lakes, while the portaging of the canoes was by this time mere child's play to them.
Did we cover those two miles that took us over an hour to do the other day when we were portaging up?
I was just saying," said Mr. Waterman, "that some good portagingwould take ten pounds or so off you and make you as hard as nails.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portaging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
