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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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th, however, in a momentof calm, Oxpuddyshou told me that the ice we were on had shaddacood, that is,gone adrift. The situation was serious. Presentlywe reached the widening lead of green-black water that cut us off from themain body of ice, and mile after mile weraced along its edge, looking for abridged passage. But no means of es-cape presented itself. With each milethe excitement of the Eskimos increased.The dogs began to tire and lag underthe unusual strain. I became very nerv-ous myself as a full realization of ourprecarious position forced itself uponme. At length the men grew desperate.They ceased to follow each other andrushed off in different directions, andfor several hours, widely separated,dashed hither and thither in a vain en-deavor to find a means of escape. This was the condition of affairswhen we heard a shout from Sipsu, whowas far to the northward. We ran inhis direction, and when we reached himfound that he had discovered a pointwhere the crack which separated our
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Copyright, iqoq, by Harry Whitney.A REST ON THE WAY TO HUMBOLDT GLACIER FOR BEAR. floe from the main ice was not so wideas elsewhere, while several small pansof floating ice between the two largerbodies offered a possible, though uncer-tain, route to safety. It was a desper-ate chance, but we decided to attemptthe passage. Tukshu had not responded to Sipsuscall, but we hoped he would soon joinus, and turned at once to our work.Without hesitation, Sipsu tied one endof a harpoon line about his waist as alife line, and while Oxpuddyshou and Iheld the other end, the venturesomeEskimo landed safely upon the first panwith a running jump. Thus he passedfrom pan to pan, finally reaching themain ice with no other mishap than wetfeet. Now it wras a question how to inducethe dogs to cross. It is difficult toforce an Eskimo dog into a place wherehe will get wet. Among animals he isthe greatest fool in this respect I haveever seen. Where one or two dogs go,however, the others will usually follow l

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