With Wild Dogs Under the Auroras 23 



ling. As it was about sundown when we 

 came in sight of the lake, and there was 

 abundance of good wood for a winter camp, 

 we there decided to spend the night and go 

 on in the morning. However, ere we had 

 unharnessed our dogs, we heard the shouts 

 of Indians and the merry jingling of dog- 

 bells. 



It did not take long for my men to notify 

 these strangers of our presence, and very 

 speedily we were joined by them. To our 

 surprise we found that the party consisted 

 of my afflicted friend and a couple of Indian 

 dog drivers. They each had a train of very 

 large and fierce-looking Eskimo dogs. On 

 my expressing my pleasure and satisfaction 

 at seeing him so much better than I had 

 expected, in view of his letter, he replied 

 that the medicine book had told him that 

 his disease would run its course in so many 

 days, and so he thought that while it was 

 doing so he would just run up and see me 

 about it. 



My Indian companions, whom I had 

 told of the probably imaginary character 

 of his ills, wanted as did I, to laugh at him, 

 but we managed to keep our faces straight 

 while he told us of the various diseases that 



