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  • n  the charge for carrying burdens by porters
  • n  the transportation of burdens by porters

  • A journey of 14,000 or more miles, with frequent changes from steamer to rail to native porterage, demands a much stronger wrapper than that you have been using.
  • To avoid backbreaking ground porterage, to foil enemy infiltrations, they depended solely upon air supply.
  • That leaves you with plenty of spending money, but don't buy more than you can carry: porterage back to New Delhi is not available.

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