The Arizona sentinel., 1884-08-30
Esquimaux Dogs.

or the CoQCrdI EdCIuC hdiiTOo'
 between Colfax and Truckee
 Jack Wright, the well known Dl
 eIsion Superintendent. is tryinI
 to acclimate a pair of Esquimau' dogs. He has an ideh that thes' g animals can be made very usefu in winter, drawing mail sledge'
 over the snow buried routes witt
 which the Sierra Nevada ,mou1 tains abound, provided they car I stand the heat of the summer mouths. The great altitude oI T Sum init station makes it the cold
 est place on the line of the whole
 road, but even there the poor dogs
 are not happy. Whenever a train
 stops at the station the dogs sci
 up a piteous howl, as if in hopes
 some of the passengers Of em.
 pIoyes on board will take pity on
 their hard lot and send them
 back to their native land of ice
 and snow.
 The Toronto Globe, in descrip-
 ton of Esquimaux dogs, says they
 are very large-larger than our Newfoundland dogs, aud much
 stronger when in condition. Their strength, however, varies. In the
 winter when they are we'll fed
 for driving they are much stouter and stronger than in the summer
 when they are poorly fed, with out exercise and languid from the heat, their native climate far to the north is severe. The best of them are white and yellow, while inferior breeds are white and black, the hair thick and bushy, and the tail long, bushy and curling up at the end. At times they are very quiet-at others very savage. They are ordinarily driven five in number, but often more. before sleds, One,l invariably a female. leading, for the others will more readily fol-  low her. Each dog has a sepa- rate rein, which is held by the driver, who has also long whip made of sealskin, plaited like or dinary whips, but with the heavy part of the lash about the thick ness of a mans wrist. The lash is from thirty to fifty feet long, and the handle, made of wood, from a foot to a foot and a half in length. When dog is not draw. ing properly or misbehaving in any way, he or she is drawn by his or her separate rein out from the rest of the pack to receive chastisement with the whip, and so well do they know what is coming that just as soon as the rein is pulled the victim begins yelping and stuggling to correct his or her ways before the whip l comes laundering along. Much 1 skill is required in the use of l these whips, for if not properly l handled the great heavy lash | cracks around the manipulatOr's body and legs, infiicting very | painful and severe wounds, but in the hands of a person skilled in the use of them these whips can be used with great precision and effect, sometimes completely cut. tug d dug's ear off.
 Very remarkable stories are told about the manner in which the E>Quimaux handle their whips, but they are probably ex- aggerated. It is said that they nave trequ 'ntIy attacked and kiIird white bears, the most ter',riouS animals. in the vicinity 0f James, Bay, with knife at. tacn, d to the eud of d whip.
 The dngs are unmanageabIe unen they get on the track of a deer. and no person can check them l., their Wild career as they gallop "up hill and down dsle," over ict aud SHOW and brush with with Ihe sled behind them, in pu suit Of the prey. Ordinarily they make about sixty miles a day, aud very pleasantly and con- fortably does man travel in the northern regions, wrapped up ID blankets and furs upon dog sled.
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