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From: Andy Knapp <Andy_Knapp_at_compuserve.com>
subject: [Paddlewise] Voyageurs
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:07:56 -0500

"P.S. By the way, these guys would carry 2, sometimes 3, 90 lb. bales of
furs over the portage trails. "

And in good weather, these guys would average 75 miles a day along the
north shore of Lake Superior in their freight canoes en route to and from
Grand Portage.

-Andy Knapp
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