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CHAPTER XI. 
INDIAN DOGS. 
Tuese faithful animals, that cling to man through 
good and evil, are of the utmost importance to 
the native tribes inhabiting the Pacific and 
Atlantic sides of the Rocky Mountains. On the 
eastern slope, the Thickwood Crees, who occupy 
the country to the west of Lake Winnipeg and 
the northern boundary of the Saskatchewan, 
manage their transport with horses and canoes 
during summer, and in winter with dogs only. 
In summer, dogs carry the loads on their backs 
on pads. In winter, the Indians travel on snow- 
shoes, and then harness the dogs to light sleighs, 
which they tug over the snow. A pretty sight 
it is in bright summer time, when hill and valley 
are alike clothed with a luxuriant vegetation, to 
see a train of dogs trotting along with their little 
loads, stopping continually to take a good sniff at 
some attractive perfume, or lap from a tempting 
