336 The Dog Disease. [March, 1868. 



prevent its spread. He succeeded, however, in securing five from the 

 Innuits, the only dogs except two or three that remained alive about the hay* 

 In return for the information he had just received and for other past 

 services, he added useful articles to the compensation which he gave 

 for these dogs. 



On the 23d, he left his encampment, ha\4ng for his companions 

 Frank Lailor, Papa and his wife and little child, Ebierbing, and Too- 

 koo-li-too. His provision-list was made up of — bread, 308 pounds ; 

 pemmican, 252 pounds; raw venison, 100 pounds; pork, 17 pounds; 

 sugar, 25 pounds ; coftee and tea, 10 pounds; molasses, 39 pounds; 

 tobacco, 13^ pounds; seal-blubber, 40 pounds, Ook-gooh oil, 50 

 pounds, partly for fuel ; — walrus-hide, 463 pounds, and whale-tongue, 

 266 pounds, for dog-food. Expecting to meet his old friends at Ig- 

 loo-lik he counted on renewing his supplies at that place. 



His list of articles for barter and for presents included 50 knives; 



* The peculiar nature of the Eskimo dog disease was closely noted in the experience of the 

 English Expedition of 1875. The following is taken from the report of Fleet-Surgeon B. Ninnis. 

 (Parliamentary Paper, C. 2176, 1S78): 



" Tvrenty-live apparently healthy dogs were embarked on board ship in the middle of 

 July, 1875. The number subsequently increased to twenty-seven by the addition of two young 

 ones. We were given to understand that feeding twice a week was amply suflScient ; that the 

 worst possible personal treatment was too good for them, and meat in any stage of decomposition 

 a perfect luxury to their fastidious palates. 



" Seven and twenty animals, confined to a space which the utmost attention was scarcely 

 sufficient to keep habitable, constantly quarreling and fighting for dear life, exposed to sun, 

 dew, snow, and wet generally, and without a chance of a run ashore — it was not to be won- 

 dered at that they began to show signs of disease. The first attacked was a young female 

 twenty-five days on board, and she had a fit and died in thirteen days. Others became attacked. 

 One was summarily shot ; one ran away, and was seen no more ; two were accidentally drowned ; 

 seven died from the disease ; six recovered; one died mad. 



"Of the whole number, twelve only were under medical treatment; one had rabies and 

 died ; one so far recovered as to have two litters of pups, and then died ten months after her 

 first fit and two or three days after her last litter ; two fell into the water when in fits and were 

 drowned; two died notwithstanding everything that was done to cure them, and six recovered 

 and were landed at Disco. • » » xhe treatment found most beneficial was calomel, fol- 

 lowed in some cases by croton-oil and solution of morphia, the best of water, and good food. 

 They were not kicked or cuffed, and they behaved as sociably and decorously as if brought up 

 in a cottage."' 



