Eureka Reporter | 1906-03-23 | Page 5 | Faithful Dogs

faithful dogs the faithfulness of the dog is well known though not appreciated as it should be perhaps most faithful ol 01 all the species lg the eskimo dog we learn the following about this animal from the writings of frederick who made a wonderful trip on a sledge from hudson day to the arctic ocean the were drawn by the dogs and he started out with sixty of them returning with only nineteen all the rest dying of alon en route says they were through all this terri ble time perfect respecters of their human allies and the little children used to go among them and play with them by pelting them with toy whips yet the same dogs were stara ing and should one of them die bis comrades would eat him I 1 notice this particularly as some sensational writ ers have tried to make their readers believe that the eskimo doga are 11 able to become dangerous fellows even to a powerfully built man when simply hungry and to be worse than wild beasts when ravenous any on slaught of eskimo dogs Is unknown among the natives where I 1 traveled it was pitiable in the extreme to see their sufferings as they devotedly helped us along many af them up to the very minute they had to be taken from the harness and abandoned along the road As they dropped out along way we harnessed ourselves lot 1 places to the sledge traces andt t was thus we were not compelled to v eave certain parts of our load