The book of dogs; an intimate study of mankind's best friend (1919) (20208835420)

Title: The book of dogs; an intimate study of mankind's best friend
Identifier: bookofdogsintima00nati (find matches)
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: National Geographic Society (U. S. ); Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927; Baynes, Ernest Harold, 1868-1925
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: Washington, D. C. , The National geographic society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 89
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mas A. Uoss MERELY BECAUSE THERE ARE NO HORSES, JOCKEYS, OR RACE TRACKS IN ALASKA IS NO REASON WHY NOME SHOULD NOT HAVE ITS RACES In no other part of the world is the rivalry keener than between owner-driven teams of sled dogs in the far north. Women not infrequently enter the lists, as shown in this picture (see text, page 87). tion niutual. When Lieut. George F. Waugh, of the United States Army, was making that lonely trip from the Cana- dian frontier to the fJering Sea coast, the story of which is told in his "Alone Across Alaska," he met a man carrying five small puppies. He was three days making twelve miles, two of them with- out a bit of food. He had frozen his feet and hands, but ihe pupijies had to be cared for, whatever the odds. Another striking case of devotion to one's dog is related of Captain Robert Bartlett. now planning an aerial expedi- tion to the Xorth Pole. He was in com- mand of the Karliik when the ship was caught in drift ice and carried helplessly on to her doom and away from Stef- ansson. whose expedition she was carry- ing. After tlie brave old craft at last surrendered to the shearing process of the ice and had gone down with her talk- ing-machine playing the funeral march, it became Captain Ilartlett's duty to bring relief to the members of the ice-stranded party. So he first saw them to reason-