THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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Photograph by Lome 



MERELY BECAUSE THERE ARE NO HORSES, JOCKEYS, OR RACE TRACKS IN ALASKA IS 

 NO REASON WHY NOME SHOULD NOT HAVE ITS RACES 



In no other part of the world is the rivalry keener than between owner-driven teams of 

 sled dogs in the far north. Women not infrequently enter the lists, as shown in this picture 

 (see text, page 271). 



tion mutual. When Lieut. George F. 

 Waugh, of the United States Army, was 

 making that lonely trip from the Cana- 

 dian frontier to the Bering Sea coast, 

 the story of which is told in his "Alone 

 Across Alaska," he met a man carrying 

 five small puppies. He was three days 

 making twelve miles, two of them with- 

 out a bit of food. He had frozen his 

 feet and hands, but the puppies had to be 

 cared for, whatever the odds. 



Another striking case of devotion to 

 one's dog is related of Captain Robert 



Bartlett, now planning an aerial expedi- 

 tion to the North Pole. He was in com- 

 mand of the Karluk when the ship was 

 caught in drift ice and carried helplessly 

 on to her doom and away from Stef- 

 ansson, whose expedition she was carry- 

 ing. After the brave old craft at last 

 surrendered to the shearing process of 

 the ice and had gone down with her talk- 

 ing-machine playing the funeral march, 

 it became Captain Bartlett's duty to bring 

 relief to the members of the ice-stranded 

 party. So he first saw them to reason- 



