244 My Dogs in the Northland 



Huskie or Eskimo clog, in the arctic regions. 

 Both are fitted for their special work in 

 a very remarkable degree, and there is noth- 

 ing, considering the condition of these 

 lands, that can at present successfully take 

 their places. If the theory of evolution is 

 true, the camel and the dog are surely the 

 perfected production of long years of de- 

 velopment under circumstances the most 

 trying. 



With the dogs of the Northland, and 

 " journeyings oft " with them we are now 

 concerned. Travellers in the burning 

 deserts can write whereof they know about 

 the patient camel, but this chapter is to be 

 devoted to a description of a trip with dogs 

 and Indians through the wilds of the Great 

 Northland. Why with dogs? Simply be- 

 cause there is positively no other way 

 possible. 



The whistle of no railroad engine or 

 steamer has ever aroused the echoes of these 

 northern interior solitudes, neither is it 

 likely to do so for long years to come. 



There are absolutely no roads, or paths, 

 or trails, for hundreds, nor even thousands, 

 of miles. The result is that there is abso- 

 lutely no other way of winter travelling 



