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tlie dogs, the indispensable reliance of the party, were 
in bad working trim. The rude harness, always apt 
to become tangled and broken, had been mended so 
often and with such imperfect means as to be scarcely 
serviceable. 
CAPE HAYES. 
This evil would seem the annoyance of an hour to 
the travellers in a stage-coach, but to a sledge-party 
on the ice-waste it is the gravest that can be con¬ 
ceived. The Esquimaux dog, as I before mentioned, 
is driven by a single trace, a long thin thong of seal 
or walrus-hide, which passes from his chest over his 
haunches to the sledge. The team is always driven 
abreast, and the traces are of course tangling and 
