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By this time the dogs had already begun to be very 

 voracious. Everything that came in their way dis- 

 appeared; whips, ski-bindings, lashings, etc., were re- 

 garded as delicacies. If one put down anything for a 

 moment, it vanished. With some of them this voracity 

 went so far that we had to chain them. 



