“Packing” can be done in three ways as in older countries, by two straps over the shoulders, like a knapsack, or with one strap across the breast, or with a “Tump line”, which consists of a strap across the forehead.
Ninety pounds is a fair pack but a man can carry more when used to it, although, at first, a very much smaller pack seems to cut one in half by the end of a day’s journey.
At the time the above picture of Hornby was taken, he had just been brought in from the East End of Great Slave Lake, when he had nearly died from starvation.
