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what that man would have thought to see an 

 Indian of a hundred and thirty-six pounds 

 weight carry four beaver and his bark canoe on 

 top, over a three-quarter mile portage without 

 resting, and he did not even appear winded at 

 the end. The beaver weighed in the neighbor- 

 hood of one hundred and eighty pounds, and 

 the bark canoe an easy sixty, but then they are 

 inured to carrying heavy loads from childhood. 



