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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1808

This morning, our men put on their best clothes . . . so that we might appear to more advantage to the eyes of the new Indians we were to meet at the rapide couvert.

1931

The leader of the expedition [Fraser] describes the worst of these dangers, the famous rapide couvert where the channel of the great river contracts to about forty yards and is nearly enclosed by overhanging walls of stone.