92 HUNTING WITH THE ESKIMOS 



they came through the ordeal with apparently little 

 injury, save the loss of teeth and lacerated lips. 

 This is only an instance of the extreme cruelty to 

 which dogs are subjected by their native masters. 



No matter how great the white visitor's inclination 

 to interfere and stop these cruelties, he is powerless 

 to prevent them. The Eskimos consider such inter- 

 ference an unwarranted intrusion into their personal 

 affairs to be resented. They have always treated 

 dogs in this way, and can see nothing wrong in it. 

 It is entirely a matter of education. They have never 

 been educated to feel compassion for dumb brutes, 

 though they are strongly imbued with sympathy for 

 human kind. 



Everything was at length ready for the hunt, and 

 one dark morning near the middle of October the 

 komatiks were loaded. My personal outfit included 

 a sleeping-bag, two changes of boots, three pairs of 

 hareskin stockings, one pair of big bearskin mitts 

 with three pairs of lighter ones to be worn inside, 

 one pair of bearskin pantaloons, one foxskin coat 

 and one deerskin kuletars. 



Our party was composed of Kulutinguah, with 

 twelve dogs; Kudlar, with ten dogs; Ilabrado, with 

 fourteen dogs ; and the elder Oxpuddyshou, with four- 

 teen dogs. There were two Oxpuddyshous, father 

 and son, and it may be interesting to explain that it 

 is not uncommon for two or three men in the same 

 family to bear the same name, as well as several in the 

 tribe. Oxpuddyshou, one of the oldest men among 

 the Highland Eskimos, was to be my personal com- 



