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voyaging ((n.)) Fur Trade, Hist

• 1 n. travelling on voyages; employment as a voyageur.

  See also: voyage ((2)) ((n.))  voyageur (def. 1)  

  • 1793  (1933)  [He] knows the Road well having seen twenty years voyaging in the Hudson's Bay Service.
  • 1855  (1956)  The mode of voyaging at that particular period varies according to the transportation, of the climate, the face of the country, or the peculiar habits of the tribes.
  • 1933  The code of voyaging had made provision for two full meals only in twenty-four hours. . . .
  • 1952  As much as possible the men of our contingent were spread among the crews, both in order to reduce the deadweight load of the passengers and so that they might learn the tricks of voyaging: of wielding a paddle and packing over a carry ...

• 2 n. Fur Trade, Hist. the activity or business of transporting goods, furs, etc. from one place to another.

  See also: tripping (def. 2)  

  • 1841  (1966)  Voyaging on the boats to York Factory ... is so laborious that some kill themselves by it, and many are sprung and so disabled that it makes old men of them before they come to the prime of life.
  • 1869  (1942)  In boat voyaging the signal to the crew to stop rowing or hauling the line for a spell is the steersman's cry of "illiume!" which means in yoyaging lingo "light your pipes!"
  • 1921  Some Indians engage in "voyaging "or "tripping" for the traders -- taking out fur packs to the steamboats or railroads, by six-fathom canoe, York boat, or sturgeon-head scow brigades, and bringing in supplies.
  • 1935  When living his natural life of trapping in the winter and voyaging in the summer, as he still does at the isolated northern posts, he is happy and takes a great delight and interest in his work

• 3 n. travelling as a voyageur.

  See also: voyageur (def. 4b)  

  • 1956  After some miles of this casual voyaging we heard a rattle in the woods and began to meet patches of foam.