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Read the following excerpt from Margaret Frink's Journal of the Adventures of a Party of California Gold-seekers.

Mr. Wand and his company have left their wagons here and made pack-saddles, intending to pack their clothing, blankets, provisions, and cooking utensils on their animals, in order to travel faster. They stopped here two days for that purpose, and are now ready to start. Mr. Johnson, of Morgan County, Indiana, had been with Mr. Wand's party up to this time, but preferring not to pack through, made arrangements with Mr. Frink to travel with us. His horse, a good animal, was harnessed to our wagon and proved quite useful.

As it is used in this excerpt, what do you think the phrase pack throughmeans? What context clues help you determine the meaning of this phrase in the excerpt? Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

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Answer:

The expression pack through means putting all in pack-saddles to go faster

Explanation:

This paragraph talks about how the company was trying to get faster to California, they thought that leaving the wagons behind would be a good way since horses would move faster with less weight, is the phrase "preferring not to pack through, made arrangements with Mr. Frink to travel with us. His horse, a good animal, was harnessed to our wagon and proved quite useful." the one that shows that at the end they didn't travel in that way and they continued as the has traveled so far.

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