158 My Dogs in the Northland 



little, or be so delayed that they could reach 

 their camping place ere any serious danger 

 menaced them. 



So they gallantly pushed on across the 

 great bay in the lake, which was many miles 

 in width, and where for hours, even in fine 

 weather, they would be out of sight of land. 



Slowly but surely the storm increased. 

 Voyageur gallantly kept up his speed and 

 seemed to know as well as the drivers that 

 no time was to be lost. 



The trains were now all fastened together 

 by tying the tail ropes of the sleds ahead to 

 the collars of the dogs coming immediately 

 in the rear. Additional ropes were made 

 secure to the sleds, and as the blizzard in all 

 its fury was now upon them, every person 

 except the experienced Indians was given 

 the end of one of these to hold on to or, if 

 he preferred, to fasten to his sash belt and 

 thus keep him from straying away and being 

 lost. 



These precautions were absolutely neces- 

 sary, as often so dense is the driving snow 

 that a person cannot see many feet in any 

 direction, while ..it the same time, the roar 

 of the blizzard is so terrible that no human 



