Identifier: moderntravelreco00davi (find matches)
Title: Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Davidson, Norman James. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company London, Seeley, Service & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ss that the most skilled of carpenters mightenvy. The runners were shod with strips of iron, a stylethat has quite ousted the old plan of shoeing with boneor mud. But further north mud is still used ; clay andmoss are mixed with water, and it is plastered on hot.It freezes instantly, and must then be scrubbed tosmoothness. It is a cheap method, but brittle. Ajourney to Hebron was decided on for the trial trip,and a start was made at five oclock in the morning inpitchy darkness. At a signal Jerry sprinted along thetrack, and the dogs went racing after him. The linetightened with a jerk, and the sledge started with abound that nearly threw the Doctor off. Sledge dogs,unless they are very tired, are always eager to be onthe move, and are in such a hurry^that they try totake short cuts of their own, leaping over great snow-drifts and frantically straining to climb huge hummocksof ice. After travelling for two hours a halt was called todisentangle the dogs, which by continual crossing over
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3 O V OS w CO o ^ si O -^ :^ = — < l-^ 1^ bcS ICE-BOUND SHORES OF LABRADOR 43 had plaited their traces together like the strings of amaypole. Dr. Hutton drank some warm coffee, but thedrivers contented themselves with water and a lump offrozen seal meat. Another halt was called at noon toice the runners of the sledge. This was effected bysquirting water from the mouth over them, when itinstantly formed a glass-like coating. Hebron appeared to be a veritable land of dogs ; theplace swarmed with them. By daytime it was not sobad, for one could avoid treading on the sleepingbrutes, though it was not very comfortable to bepersistently followed by a dozen or more of the wolfish-looking creatures; but by night it was awful. Thedogs sang and snarled and fought and held meetings oftheir own, and prowled about in gangs in the moon-light, furtive and terrible. Sledge dogs are ravenouslyhungry when feeding-time comes, and an ordinaryteam can easily polish off the carcase of a seal, butfeedi

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