half cargo

Fur Trade, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a partial unloading of a canoe to enable it to pass a shallow or dangerous place.

Quotations

1810

At 1 PM the Canoes came half Cargoe--they crossed us & went to fetch the rest of the Furrs.

1810

. . . went down to the Forks--here half Cargoe over the Rapids--dangerous. . . .