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a couple of needles. The doctor had set them to work on 

 kamiks, fur mittens, fur stockings, and fur trousers, and they 

 had worked like beavers all the week, while the men had put 

 in their time hunting, and a goodly number of seals were 

 added to the store of dog-meat. 



We were now in possession of twenty-two good dogs, the 

 pick of all the dogs in the tribe, and Mr. Peary felt that the suc- 

 cess of his long sledge journey was assured. Every pack of 

 Eskimo dogs has its leader. If a new dog is added to the 

 pack a fight takes place at once between 

 j' him and the leader to determine his posi- 



tion in the team. Now, up to this time 

 a great white shaggy brute, from Cape 

 York, whom we called Lion, on account 

 of his gray mane, had been the canine 

 king of Redclifife. With the arrival of 

 Kulutingwah's fine dogs there came a 

 change. Lion and his first lieutenant, a 

 dog marked very much like himself, at 

 once charged upon the new-comers, evi- 

 dently expecting to thrash them into sub- 

 jection as easily as had been done in the 

 case of the other dogs, but he, for once, was doc^ned to dis- 

 appointment ; although the fight raged fierce and long, poor 

 Lion was vanquished, and forced to resign his position as king 

 in favor of the larger of the new-comers, whom we called 

 " Naleyah " (chief). 



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