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Hudson's Bay start 
a short first leg of a long journey, a term originating among the fur traders of the old Northwest.
- 1914 The first camp was merely a "pullout," commonly called a "Hudson's Bay Start," very necessary so that before launching into the unknown, one could see that nothing had been forgotten, or that if one had taken too much, being so near the base, the mistake could easily be corrected.
- 1927 The day came--July 8--and they moved to a lake two miles away on a trial, a Hudson's Bay start.
- 1940 "We leave camp at 3.30 p.m. . . . and start our march across the prairies." As any reader might surmise from the hour of departure given, this was only a march-out, or, as it was then known, a "Hudson's Bay start," designed to rest horses, oxen, harness, and wagon loads before the real march began.
- 1966 Then about eight P.M. he would make a Hudson's Bay start for Namko, pausing for a partial night's sleep about one hundred miles west of town.
- 1914 The first camp was merely a "pullout," commonly called a "Hudson's Bay Start," very necessary so that before launching into the unknown, one could see that nothing had been forgotten, or that if one had taken too much, being so near the base, the mistake could easily be corrected.