46 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



sledges, they are almost well-trained 

 dogs without knowing just when their 

 schooling commenced. 



And so with little Boreas ; when he 

 gets older he takes the dogs his younger 

 brother finds unmanageable and trains 

 them, and by the time he is a young man, 

 he is a good dog-driver, and knows how 

 to manage a sledge under all circum- 

 stances. This is the hardest thing that 

 an Eskimo has to learn. I have known 

 white men to equal them in rowing in 

 their little seal-skin canoes ; I have seen' 

 white men build good igloos ; but I have 

 never seen a white man who was a good 

 dog-driver ; and the Eskimo told me that 

 they had never seen such an one either. 

 When they drive their dogs, it is in 

 the shape of a letter V, the foremost dog 

 being at the converging point, and the 



