. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. SCOTT BORROWED THE WHIP. sledge and started off, with six dogs and two Esquimaux harnessed infront and another pushing the sledge, while the fourth drove the dogs. Two persons and a driver occupied each of the smaller sledges, and amoment later were flying like the wind over the white drifts. The boys practiced with an instrument which the trader loaned them,to test their speed, on n- uch the same principle of throwing the log atsea, and watched the driver handle his whip with unbounded admiration. The dogs were attached to
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. SCOTT BORROWED THE WHIP. sledge and started off, with six dogs and two Esquimaux harnessed infront and another pushing the sledge, while the fourth drove the dogs. Two persons and a driver occupied each of the smaller sledges, and amoment later were flying like the wind over the white drifts. The boys practiced with an instrument which the trader loaned them,to test their speed, on n- uch the same principle of throwing the log atsea, and watched the driver handle his whip with unbounded admiration. The dogs were attached to the sledge by long cords of rolled hide, ofdifferent lengths, and that whip was the only argument-which the drivercould use with them. The handle was only two feet long, but the lashwas nearly eighteen feet. When one dog lagged, or snapped at another, he called his name, in
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