SUSCEPTIBILITY 13 
Antarctic. These dogs were a large powerful type of 
samoyede, very wild and little used to handling, and 
when they arrived in England it was my duty to uncrate 
and examine them and get them into good health and 
fit condition for their important labours. 
Approximately 11 per cent., however, were found to 
be subjects of distemper, and several were so severely 
stricken that they succumbed. Doubtless, had they 
remained in their own country they might never have 
contracted the slightest infection, being inured to the 
type prevailing there. 
Youatt observes that “few dogs imported into this 
country as exotics do well with it”; thus the greater 
number of the northern dogs brought by Captain Parry 
were carried off by distemper within a twelvemonth. 
