. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. red, on account oftheir elasticity which renders them less liable to be broken than bone. Ordinarily the pace of the reindeer is not rapid, but the animals forthe travelling sledges are trained to move with a speed which justifies thereputation they have received in story-books. Instances are on record ofreindeer having gone at the rate of nineteen miles an hour for three orfour hours, and a single pair has been driven one hundred and fifty milesin twenty hours. On such occasions they take a steady trot at starting,and if the roads are good the
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. red, on account oftheir elasticity which renders them less liable to be broken than bone. Ordinarily the pace of the reindeer is not rapid, but the animals forthe travelling sledges are trained to move with a speed which justifies thereputation they have received in story-books. Instances are on record ofreindeer having gone at the rate of nineteen miles an hour for three orfour hours, and a single pair has been driven one hundred and fifty milesin twenty hours. On such occasions they take a steady trot at starting,and if the roads are good they rarely break from it until they have gonea dozen or twenty miles. In many parts of Siberia they are preferred todogs, as they find their own food; but on the other hand the travellermust follow a route where food is known to exist, or his team will breakdown. When reindeer are wearied they stop, and refuse to move untilrested; if urged to go on they lie down, and no whipping in the power ofman to administer can induce them to rise and A REINDEER SLED. 7 98 THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN. CHAPTER VII. CHUCKCHEES AND KORAKS.—INTERNATIONAL FESTIVITIES. COMMANDER BRONSON found the captain of the Gambetta readyto receive him, and talk over the plans of their expeditions. Bothhad the same purpose—to get as near as possible to the pole. All the latest maps of the polar regions were spread on the table in thecabin, and the two explorers sat for some time in consultation over Bronson pointed to the discoveries of Wrangell and Anjou inthe early part of the century, and to those of De Long and others in recenttimes. Wrangell was stopped at latitude 72° 2 north, said he, not by ice,but by open water. He had travelled to that point on sledges, and had noboats with which he could proceed. Since his time the land which heendeavored to reach has been visited, and found to be a large island, towhich his name has been given. The natives of the Siberian coast hadbeen the
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