Oe FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE NORTH [May 



the smooth ice of the Sound. E-took-a-shoo ran after it as rapidly 

 as his short legs would permit. My dogs awoke with a start after 

 he had passed, and saw the queer, fuzzy-looking article bounding and 

 leaping, with E-took-a-shoo in pursuit. They jumped, tore the 

 eight-pound tin of pemmican, which served as an anchor, out of the 

 snow, and were soon at full speed on the heels of the Eskimo. Five 

 of the leaping dogs passed upon one side, three upon the other, with 

 the most undignified result. When the knotted traces and the 

 bounding tin caught E-took-a-shoo back of the heels, he didn't 

 have so far to fall as some, but that far was far enough. I 

 noticed that he arranged a very soft seat on his sledge the next 

 morning. 



We arrived at the head of Bay Fiord on the 12th, 

 after a continuous twelve-and-three-quarter-hour march 

 on snow-shoes through heavy snow. Poor Green had 

 no shoes, having lost them at Cape Thomas Hubbard, 

 and arrived an hour later completely exhausted. 



Added to my troubles was the enforced fostering of 

 a pup born that morning on the march and carried on 

 the inside of my shirt against my body to keep it warm. 

 If that pup had lived it would have traveled in circles 

 for the rest of its life ! It crawled around my body forty 

 times, and finally wriggled out through a hole in the back 

 of my shirt. And after all this care, the mother refused 

 to accept it at night! 



A nine-hour plodding through deep snows on the 

 14th, up over the hills of Ellesmere Land, brought us to 

 what resembled the bed of an old lake, a confluence of 

 glacial streams resulting in a large area of rolling ice. 

 Looking back through and over the black serrated peaks 

 rising out of snow-covered valleys and winding glaciers 

 well repaid us for our exhausting work. However dif- 

 ficult an ascent may have been and however physically 

 tired the body, no one has ever yet regretted the ex- 

 penditure of time and energy necessary in lifting one- 



