The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . KRUPP GUN-WORKS. while others receive word from civilization oftener. About the istof December each year a party of brave and hardy men inured tohardship, cold and danger, turn their faces northward from the cityof Winnipeg to seek their friends in the great lone land of the 296 TRANSPORTATION. north. There is but a small band of men at the beginning. Theironly living companions are the hardy dogs of that region whichhave been trained to harness and which are hitched to the o-reatsleds. Upon these sleds are packed the mail-bags, the provisionsa
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . KRUPP GUN-WORKS. while others receive word from civilization oftener. About the istof December each year a party of brave and hardy men inured tohardship, cold and danger, turn their faces northward from the cityof Winnipeg to seek their friends in the great lone land of the 296 TRANSPORTATION. north. There is but a small band of men at the beginning. Theironly living companions are the hardy dogs of that region whichhave been trained to harness and which are hitched to the o-reatsleds. Upon these sleds are packed the mail-bags, the provisionsand the other supplies necessary for the long journey. The men. INTERIOR OF KRUPP GUN-WORKS. run along beside the sleds at a rapid gait, because if they should sitdown on them and be drawn by the dogs they would soon but constant motion can keep them warm during the morenortherly part of the journey. They go down the Red river of theNorth on the ice until they reach Lak^ Winnipeg, and then con-tinue northward on its icy surface for more than two hundred m;les^t a point near its northwest angle the party divides, some of Inemen and sledges continuing northwest and another portion turningnortheast past Norway House and toward Hudsons Bay. Thefirst ones follow their northw^estward course, passing numerous TRANSPORTATION. 297 posts of the great company of fur traders, and at each place leavinga portion of the mail and of their party. Reinforcements are takenwhen needed, but at the end, when all but one mail-bag has beendellv- jeered, and wlien a map of all the routes followedwould M^^resemble the crreat trunk of a tree with its branches
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