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THE DOG. 
over each dog’s head, he has made them al^ 
lie down. 
“With heavy loads, the dogs draw hes‘ 
with one of their own people, especially ^ 
woman, walking a little way ahead: and i>' 
this case they are sometimes enticed to men^ 
their pace by holding a mitten to the mouth 
and then making the motion of cutting it witl' 
a knife, and throwing it on the snow, whei' 
the dogs, mistaking it for meat, hasten for 
ward to pick it up. The women also entic^ 
them from the huts in a similar manner. Th^ 
rate at which they travel depends of cours^ 
on the weight they have to draw, and the roa^ 
on which the journey is performed. WheH 
the latter is level and very hard and smooth 
six or seven dogs will draw from eight to tefl 
hundred weight, at the rate of seven or eio-h* 
miles an hour ; and will easily, under thes^ 
circumstances, perform a journey of fifty of 
sixty miles a day. On untrodden snow, twentf 
