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fetch about $1*50 to $2 a pair. I afterwards found 

 that in the making of these boots, and indeed in all 

 Arctic needlework, Mrs. Sam Broomfield stood unrivalled 

 even by the Eskimo. She uses the pelt of the common 

 seal for the legs and that of the square-flipper for the 

 soles, while she ornaments the tops with a fringe of 

 ring-seal. Boots and mocassins made by her are sought 

 after far and wide. While I was up country she made 

 me a camera case and a cartridge bag of sealskin, both 

 of which show absolutely no sign of wear, even after 

 the many hard trips they have undergone. 



However, we have travelled ahead of the boat, which 

 soon beached beneath the cabin. Our landing was 

 attended by a dozen huskies, animals which recent 

 fiction has glorified beyond their deserts. These dogs, 

 led by a powerful animal called Buller, watched us dis- 

 embark with their bright eyes. Fiction has told how the 

 moment a husky, vanquished in fight, loses its legs its 

 team-mates fall upon and tear it to pieces, but fiction has 

 not added that a child, or even at night in some instances 

 a strange adult, must also keep his feet to secure safety 

 from a similar fate. A few months before our visit a 

 child at Cartwright, one of the Hudson's Bay posts, 

 slipped upon a wooden jetty and fell amongst the huskies. 

 There were upwards of fifty bites upon her before her 

 mother, who showed the highest courage, succeeded in 

 driving the brutes off. During the daytime the husky 

 is fairly amenable to the well-aimed stone, but at night, 

 or under stress of temptation, the savage wolf nature 

 breaks out at once. I can still remember an anxious 

 pilgrimage I made in the starshine to fetch a shirt I had 

 left to dry on the bushes, during which I was accom- 

 panied by Buller and his fellows, all treading delicately. 



