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These were the most violent rapids we had yet met, not excepting the ones we had portaged.

From A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel

Forty miles we had portaged from Lake Disappointment.

From The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Wallace, Dillon

We had portaged through a valley and over a low ridge to the shores of a pond, out of which a small stream ran to the southeast. 

From The Long Labrador Trail by Wallace, Dillon

Frona steered straight across the current, at almost right angles, for Split-up; but when the sandspit, over which they had portaged, crashed at the impact of a million tons, Corliss glanced at her anxiously.

From A Daughter of the Snows by London, Jack

"I understand they only kept together until they had portaged their outfit across the divide."

From The Lure of the North by Bindloss, Harold