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right or left. To these a good leader atteiK^’ 
with admirable precision, especially if his o^''^’ 
name he repeated at the same time, looking 
behind over his shoulder w'ith great earnest' 
ness, as if listening to the directions of th^ 
driver. On a beaten track, or even where ^ 
single foot or sledge-mark is occasionally dis' 
cernible, there is not the slightest trouble i® 
guiding the dogs : for, even on the darkest 
night, and in the heaviest snow-drift, there h 
little or no danger of their losing the road) 
the leader keeping his nose near the ground) 
and directing the rest with wonderful sagacity' 
Where, however, there is no beaten track, tb^ 
best driver among them makes a terribly cit' 
cuitous course, as all the Esquimaux road® 
plainly show ; these generally occupying ai> 
extent of six miles, when, with a horse and 
sledge, the journey would scarcely hav^ 
amounted to five. On rough ground, 
among hummocks of ice, the sledge would 
