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hunter, for the four or five straining dogs practi- 

 cally pull him along; indeed, Schwatka says that 

 when these Innuits come to a hill they squat 

 and slide down, throwing themselves at full 

 length upon the snow of the ascending bank, up 

 which the excited dogs drag them without any 

 effort on the part of the hunter. I should like 

 to add here that if such a plan were pursued in 

 the Barren Grounds over the rocky ridges, the 

 remains of the hunter would not be interested 

 in musk-ox hunting by the time the top of a 

 ridge was reached. Seriously, the chief value of 

 hunting in this style is that the hunter controls 

 his four to six dogs, the usual number of the 

 Eskimo sledge. When they have caught up with 

 the musk-ox herd, he then looses them and he is 

 there to begin action. The Eskimo dogs are 

 very superior in breed to those used by the 

 Indians farther south, and are trained as well 

 to run mute. 



The chances of getting musk-oxen in the Barren 

 Grounds are not so good in summer as in winter, 

 because travelling by canoe you are, of course, 

 bound to keep to the chain of lakes, and your 

 course is therefore prescribed, it being impossible 

 to travel over the land at will as it is in winter 



