Adrift on an ice-pan . to thesouthward, to get a doctor on a veryurgent case. It was that of a youngman on whom we had operated abouta fortnight before for an acute bonedisease in the thigh. The people hadallowed the wound to close, the poi-soned matter had accumulated, andwe thought we should have to re-[ 1 ] ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN move the leg. There was obviously,therefore, no time to be lost. So,having packed up the necessary in-struments, dressings, and drugs, andhaving fitted out the dog-sleigh withmy best dogs, I started at once, themessengers following me with theirteam. My team was an e
Adrift on an ice-pan . to thesouthward, to get a doctor on a veryurgent case. It was that of a youngman on whom we had operated abouta fortnight before for an acute bonedisease in the thigh. The people hadallowed the wound to close, the poi-soned matter had accumulated, andwe thought we should have to re-[ 1 ] ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN move the leg. There was obviously,therefore, no time to be lost. So,having packed up the necessary in-struments, dressings, and drugs, andhaving fitted out the dog-sleigh withmy best dogs, I started at once, themessengers following me with theirteam. My team was an especially goodone. On many a long journey theyhad stood by me and pulled me outof difficulties by their sagacity andendurance. To a lover of his dogs, asevery Christian man must be, eachone had become almost as preciousas a child to its mother. They werebeautiful beasts: Brin, the clever-est leader on the coast; Doc,a large, gentle beast, the backboneof the team for power; Spy, awiry, powerful black and white dog;[ a ]. ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN Moody, a lop-eared black-and-tan,in his third season, a plodder thatnever looked behind him; Watch,the youngster of the team, long-legged and speedy, with great liquideyes and a Gordon-setter coat; Sue,a large, dark Eskimo, the image ofa great black wolf, with her sharp-pointed and perpendicular ears, forshe harked back to her wild an-cestry ; Jerry, a large roan-coloredslut, the quickest of all my dogs onher feet, and so affectionate that herovertures of joy had often sent mesprawling on my back; Jack, ajet-black, gentle-natured dog, morelike a retriever, that always ran nextthe sledge, and never looked back buteverlastingly pulled straight ahead,running always with his nose to theground. [ 3 ] ADRIFT ON AN ICE-PAN It was late in April, when there isalways the risk of getting wet throughthe ice, so that I was carefully pre-pared with spare outfit, which in-cluded a change of garments, snow-shoes, rifle, compass, axe, and oilskinoverclothes.
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