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Updated: June 29, 2025
The wanigan for the rear crew was built. The foremen and walking boss had been picked out. Everything was in readiness. Orde was satisfied with the situation except that he found himself rather short-handed. He had counted on three hundred men for his crews, but scrape and scratch as he would, he was unable to gather over two hundred and fifty.
"Well," said he at last, "we better make camp. We'll be down in the jam pretty soon." The cookees abandoned the sweeps in favour of more pike-poles. By pushing and pulling on the logs floating about them, they managed to work the wanigan in close to the bank. Charlie, a coil of rope in his hand, surveyed the prospects. "We'll stop right down there by that little knoll," he announced.
The more important matters, such as the men's clothes-bags, the rolls of bedding, and the heavier supplies of provisions, had not yet cut loose from their moorings, although the rapid backing of the water threatened soon to convert the wanigan into a chute for nearly the full volume of the current.
By the end of the second day the pond was clear, and as Charlie's wanigan was drifting toward the chute, the first of Johnson's drive floated into the head of the pond. Charlie's wanigan, in case you do not happen to know what such a thing may be, was a scow about twenty feet long by ten wide.
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