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required for use and trade. At Whale River, 

 where no cattle are kept, dogs haul all the fire 

 wood consumed at the station, and as the wood is 

 cut seven miles distant from the place, and the 

 consumption is very great they are kept very 

 busy, and I think work much harder than at the 

 more southern stations. A very large team, 

 or indeed several teams, are kept at York Factory, 

 and are employed in hauling venison, the principal 

 food of the station, from the various places where 

 the hunters have succeeded in killing it. The 

 Churchill team, too, is a splendid one, and the 

 principal driver, George Oman is almost as ex 

 cellent in his way as Harvey, of Albany. I have 

 seen these dogs as playful and gentle as kittens, 

 and as fierce and cruel as a pack of wolves ; some 

 times they are playing with and fondling each 

 other and persons of their acquaintance, although 

 there is perhaps less personal attachment in the 

 Eskimo dog than in any other; and, again, I have 

 seen Eskimo dogs lying dead, killed by their 

 companions in their terrible battles. As a rule, 

 they are not dangerous to people, but they do 

 occasionally attack them, and commit great 

 outrages.&quot; 



Language An indefatigable worker, Horden learned Cree, 



Ojibway, and Eskimo, for the benefit of the na 

 tives; Norwegian, for some of the company s 

 staff; and Hebrew, that he might be the better 

 able to translate the Old Testament.&quot; In his 

 journeyings he was equally untiring; the Eskimo 

 at Whale River on the cast coast of the Bay, 



