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Page 82
... dogs instead of them in their fowling ex- cursions , to draw their light boats from one lake or river to another . In short , the dog is no less indis- pensable to the settled inhabitant of this country , than is the tame reindeer to ...
... dogs instead of them in their fowling ex- cursions , to draw their light boats from one lake or river to another . In short , the dog is no less indis- pensable to the settled inhabitant of this country , than is the tame reindeer to ...
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... dogs required for eight sledges , I sought anxiously to adopt such precautions as might secure those we obtained from infection . Orders were given to procure as quickly as possible at least a hundred healthy dogs , and to take them ...
... dogs required for eight sledges , I sought anxiously to adopt such precautions as might secure those we obtained from infection . Orders were given to procure as quickly as possible at least a hundred healthy dogs , and to take them ...
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... dogs , with provisions for them * The choice of dogs is a most material point . A team should always be well accustomed to draw together ; they learn to aid each other , by which they are saved much fatigue , and their driver much ...
... dogs , with provisions for them * The choice of dogs is a most material point . A team should always be well accustomed to draw together ; they learn to aid each other , by which they are saved much fatigue , and their driver much ...
Contents
rival of the English Traveller Captain Cochrane The | 87 |
CHAPTER V | 97 |
CHAPTER VI | 114 |
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