. 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. STARTING THE BAGGAGE. GREENLANDS SELF. 81 a shrill, sharp voice, shouted something like: Tti-lee-hee-hee-hee / andat the same instant lifted that short handle. The lash was always dragging behind, but the driver gave a suddenjerk and it flew through the air. The next instant there was a crack likethe report of a pistol, and a yelp and a bound from the offending dogshowed how correct the aim had been. Scott borrowed the whip to try his hand. No one at Little Harborcould crack a whip like him, and after a few experiments he could makea report that sent the Esquimau driver into ecstasies. Then he watched for an offending dog, and had not long to gave an excellent imitation of Tu-lee-hee-hee-hee ! and sent the lashflying; but it cracked upon the nose of the dog behind. He yelped, fellback, stumbled and rolled over and over. In the meantime the lashbecame entangled in the tow-lines. The dos;s discovered the fact in an
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