. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ANIMAL LIPE. 85 peculiar cries indicate the right or left, to turn or to stop. Three dogs can draw a sledge weighing 100 lbs. at the rate of a mile in six minutes, and one leader is said to have transported 196 lbs. the same distance in eight minutes. A fuU team, however, comprises eight or ten ; though seven have been known to draw a loaded sledge at the rate of a mile i
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ANIMAL LIPE. 85 peculiar cries indicate the right or left, to turn or to stop. Three dogs can draw a sledge weighing 100 lbs. at the rate of a mile in six minutes, and one leader is said to have transported 196 lbs. the same distance in eight minutes. A fuU team, however, comprises eight or ten ; though seven have been known to draw a loaded sledge at the rate of a mile in four minutes and a half; while nine, employed in conveying stores from the Hecla to the Fury, drew 1611 lbs. in nine minutes. Captain Lyon reports most favourably of the team that he himself formed, which used to carry him from ship to ship, a mile distant, in the deepest darkness and amid clouds of snow-drift, with the most perfect precision, when he could not have found his own way a hundred steps. Their services in hunting are also of great value; they can snufF the seal in his hole, or the deer on the mountains, from a surprising dis- tance. Assembled in packs, they face even the Polar bear, keeping him at bay till their masters come up with spears to the attack. The air in those dreary regions is, almost as much as the waters, peopled with its appropriate inhabitants, which fill it continually with sound and life. Here, too, the species are nearly all different from those that wing their flight through the temperate skies. They do not shine with the bright hues of the humming-bird, nor breathe the soft notes of the nightingale, nor do they charm the ear with the rich melody of our woodland choirs; but the auk, the petrel, and the gull, clustering in myriads, cause all the rocks and shores of the North to echo with their wild clang. They are almost all rapacious and carnivorous ; the vast collections of shell- fish and marine insects with which those seas abound, and the
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