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Updated: May 27, 2025
The "skiff," as they whimsically termed the steamboat's great, clumsy tender its official name of "sturgeon-head" was more descriptive was brought alongside; and a half-mile of hawser, more or less, patiently coiled in the bottom.
Some Indians engage in "voyaging" or "tripping" for the traders taking out fur packs to the steamboats or railroads, by six-fathom canoe, York boat, or sturgeon-head scow brigades, and bringing in supplies. Others put in part of their time on an occasional hunt for moose or caribou, or in shooting wild fowl.
A six-fathom canoe carries from twenty to thirty packages; a York boat, seventy-five packages; a Sturgeon-head scow, one hundred packages; and a Red River cart, six hundred pounds. The carts were made entirely of wood and leather and were hauled by horse or ox.
The freight load per dog as you know is a hundred pounds; per man, one to two hundred pounds; per horse, four to six hundred pounds; and per ox, five to seven hundred pounds. In summer there were the canoe, York boat, sturgeon-head scow, and Red River cart brigades.
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