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There was a look of surprise in his face that I had blundered onto a discovery which he had looked for many times in vain, his traps on his back. "Das a portash," he said simply. "A portage! But who made a portage here?" "Well, Musquash he prob'ly make-um first. Den beaver, den h'otter, den everybody in hurry he make-um. You see, river make big bend here.
Portash go 'cross; save time, jus' same Indian portash." That was the first of a dozen such paths that I have since found cutting across the bends of wilderness rivers, the wood folk's way of saving time on a journey. I left Simmo to go on down the river, while I followed the little byway curiously.
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