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قراءة كتاب Packing and Portaging
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PACKING AND PORTAGING
PACKING AND
PORTAGING
BY
DILLON WALLACE
Author of "The Lure of the Labrador Wild," "The Long Labrador Trail," "Saddle and Camp in the Rockies," "Across the Mexican Sierras," etc.
NEW YORK
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
MCMXII
Copyright, 1912, by
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I. | Packing and the Outfit | 9 |
| II. | The Canoe and Its Equipment | 12 |
| III. | Camp Equipment for the Canoe Trip | 15 |
| IV. | Personal Equipment | 23 |
| V. | Food | 31 |
| VI. | The Portage | 38 |
| VII. | Travel with Saddle and Pack Animals | 51 |
| VIII. | Saddle and Pack Equipment | 56 |
| IX. | Personal Outfit for the Saddle | 64 |
| X. | Adjusting the Pack | 71 |
| XI. | Some Practical Hitches | 77 |
| XII. | Traveling Without a Pack Horse | 101 |
| XIII. | Afoot in Summer | 106 |
| XIV. | With Snowshoes and Toboggan | 110 |
| XV. | With Dogs and Komatik | 123 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Method of Slinging Load on Aparejo | 58, 59 |
| Sling for Racking on Crosstree Saddle | 74 |
| Squaw or Crosstree Hitch | 79, 80 |
| The Crosstree Diamond Hitch | 82, 83 |
| United States Army Diamond Hitch | 85, 86 |
| Lifting Hitch | 93, 94 |
| Stirrup Hitch | 96 |
| Saddle Hitch | 97 |
PACKING AND PORTAGING
CHAPTER I
PACKING AND THE OUTFIT
Ordinarily the verb to pack means to stow articles snugly into receptacles, but in the parlance of the trail it often means to carry or transport the articles from place to place. The pack in the language of the trail is the load a man or horse carries.
Likewise, a portage on a canoe route is a break between navigable