Three Years of Arctic Service; An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84, and the Attainment of the Farthest North Volume 2 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: old dogs. Most of the Greenland dogs will not touch bread, f oven when very hungry. Of the fifteen puppies born in Grinnell Land, which are now fit for work, five were from one bitch and seven from another. There is a great difference in the manner in which the bitches care for their young." Lieutenant Lockwood left for his preliminary journey on March 10th, and was absent seven days. He was accompanied by Sergeants Brainard, Jewell, and Elison, and the two Eskimo, with their dog-teams. He succeeded in laying out a practicable sledge route from Cape Beechy to Cape Sumner, and in accumulating near the latter point about thirteen hundred pounds of field supplies. This preliminary work was performed in the most satisfactory manner, and without accident or suffering apart from the great discomforts that are necessarily experienced in sledging in very low temperatures. Sergeant Elison, however, was taken sick the first day out, but, feeling better the next morning he continued on until the 13th. Lieutenant Lockwood then sent him back by sledge to Depot " B," near Cape Beechy, from which point, as he had recovered strength, he persuaded Sergeant Jewell to permit him to return on foot to Fort Conger. The pluck, endurance, and courage displayed by Elison on this occasion were only in keeping with the manner in which he performed all field service in connection with the expedition. Sergeant Jewell remained in the field one day after Lieutenant Lockwood's return to perform certain field work. An accident occurred to his party at Depot " B," which delayed his return several hours, and might, under other circumstances, have proved a very serious matter. Instead of securing the dog-harness and whip in their own tent, they placed them in the depot. During the night the dogs broke in, s...