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[Feb. 15, 1908. 
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When writing say you saw the adv. in 
"Forest and Stream.” 
Adventures with Indians and Game. 
By Dr. William Allen. Price, $2.15, postpaid. 
This is a pleasing narrative of adventures on the plains 
and in the Rocky Mountains. Indian ways and wars, 
hunting the bison, antelope, deer, cougar, grizzly bear, 
elk are all told interestingly and well. Fully illustrated. 
OUR KOMATIK DOGS. 
If some of your readers are as fond of anima' 
as I am, I am sure they would like to kno' 
something of dog life in Labrador and norther 
Newfoundland, so I will tell you about the dog 
belonging to the hospitals at Battle Harbo 
St. Anthony and here at Harrington. On tl 
Labrador and in northern Newfoundland ther 
are just two kinds of dogs: Crackies, as til 
people call them, and komatik dogs. The kom; 
tik dogs are large, and some are very hero 
because they are partly wolf. Tliev are kej 
for drawing the komatiks in the winter, for n 
other animals except reindeer, could go safe! 
or find their way in blinding snow storms ovc 
the rough snow-covered hills and frozen bay 
often coated with thin ice, that will not be; 
the weight of anything heavier than dog 
harnessed separately, and each one at a distanc 
from the other. They work very hard, for the 
have to draw all the wood, which is often felle; 
ten miles away, water, and freight, as well sj 
people. They frequently trot fifty miles in or 
day, but they enjoy this and go very fast. 
There is always a leader, who is chosen fr 
having the best - instinct for finding the way b 
day or night, and one of them often acts as se 
appointed policeman, keeping the others straigl 
and biting the heels of any dog who tries t 
get out of the track or who slacks the traces. 
Their food is quite different from that of cit 
dogs, for we have neither beef, mutton, vea 
pork, nor dog biscuit here. They eat fish, se; 
and whale which, for the winter, is salted c: 
frozen. Herring, cods’ heads, capelin and squi 
are what they principally get, with, when thei; 
masters are good to them and can afford to bu 
it, corn meal, made into porridge with blubbe 
They get but one meal a day, and that in tb| 
evening after their work is done. They are nc 
allowed in the houses, for their manners ar 
not nice and they are terrible thieves, but the 
sleep out of doors, scratching for themselves i 
the winter a hole in the snow if they cannc 
find any more sheltered spot. At Harringto 
the people are good to their dogs, for they buil 
them nice little wooden houses called cabin: 
where they are shut in at night. If a dog i 
naughty during the day. stealing the fish off th 
flakes, or fighting the other dogs, he feels ver 
much the disgrace of being “cabined.” The 
are very jealous of their territorial rights an, 
seem to know exactly where their boundaric 
are, for they fiercely resent the trespassing c 
any other dog on their master’s property. The 
love a fight and will start one on the siighte; 
provocation, not hesitating, in the heat of battli 
to attack and slay one of their boon compar 
ions, with whom, but a few minutes before 
they were basking in the sun, or drawing 
komatik. 
The crackies are the pet dogs, of any breet 
allowed in the house, of whom the komati 
dogs are so fiercely jealous that in some place, 
it is not safe to let them out unprotected, fo 
they would be at once killed. 
The komatik dogs are so fierce and savag< 
partly because of the wolf nature and parti 
because they are never petted, but too ofte, 
badly treated, half starved, beaten and spoke 
to crossly. They can be very nice when spoke 
to kindly and treated well, but are never as re 
liable as our well-trained, well-bred home dog: 
There are sixteen dogs belonging to th 
mission at Battle Harbor. They do not jive a, 
the hospital, which is on a small, rocky islanc 
but are taken care of by a man named Murphy 
who lives on the mainland, across the tickle 
These mission dogs very much dislike the Smit 
dogs who live on the island, so sometimes th 
sixteen will sound a challenge and, if answere 
by the Smith dogs, a mass af noses and tails i 
seen crossing the tickle, howls of derision an< 
defiance are heard, they are met on the shor 
by the Smith dogs and a battle royal ensues 
When enough hair has been torn out. blod 
drawn, and ardor cooled, helped by a judiciou 
application of stick and strong language, tin 
tickle is again crossed. When the wounds ar 
sufficiently healed, the Smith dogs are the ag 
gressors and the return battle is fought on th« 
mainland. 
At St. Anthony, we had thirteen komatik dog: 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
