A Team of Dogs in Harness. 



CHAPTER XIII 

 ON DOGS AND DIFFICULTIES 



THE Esquimaux dog, unlike his Newfoundland 

 congener, is by no means a fiction, being an 

 ubiquitous feature of Esquimaux life. Indeed, being 

 musical like his master, his propensity for nocturnal 

 chorus keeps him constantly in evidence ; and, though 

 he is never heard to bark, he manages often to leave 

 a deep impression on an incautious stranger. 



On his dog's pluck and endurance the master's 

 safety often depends, and to his marvellous instinct 

 for finding human habitations many a man, hope- 

 lessly lost in a snowstorm on the icefield, owes his 

 existence. Yet the Eskimo, finding it ample trouble 

 to satisfy his own needs, never adds to his trouble 

 by feeding his dogs in summer time, with the result 



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