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Now the serious work of the journey begins. The Hill River, as this part of the river is called, is a series of rapids and portages where the cargo and boat have both to be carried around a rapid; of decharges where the cargo has thus to be carried, and of semi-decharges where a portion of the cargo only needs to be removed. At times waterfalls require to be circuited with great effort.
There was the Ottawa to be ascended, the rapids to be run, the portages where the canoe must be emptied and where each voyageur must bear his two packs of ninety pounds apiece, and there were the décharges, where the canoe was merely lightened and where the voyageurs, now on the land, now into the rushing waters, dragged it forward till the rapids were passed.
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