The daily Alaskan., 1910-05-09
FIERCE ESKIMO DOCS.
They Retain Their Wild Nature
 Despite Long Training,
AS SAVAGE AS THE WOLVES,

They Afways Hunt ln Pasks--la-
 ataaess ln Labrasor Where They
 Have Deysurod Human 5sInsa,
 There undoubtedly Is an aBnity be- tween tbe wolf end the Eskimo dog, For generations the dog has been trained by the Esktmos, Cbiedy by the women. and taught Co hau, a sgedge In winter. The Hudson Bay compaBy's 8geua and Jhe settlers on the coast of Labrador vie with each other in get uug together splendid teams. One would naturally suppose that dogs Of thls klad. SO tong trained and assoct ated with men, would become more or less domesucated and lose thelF origi- nal savage character IJ Is, however quite otherwise
 The Eskimo dog Of today Is sdll a pure. unmltlgaJel savage. Like his .coaeeuer. the wolf. be always hunts in packs Quite recently an Eskimo, with his wife and child, was making a jour uey with hLs team to nearby settle melt On hls way the driver became u and weak and quite unable 60 con troI lls team The dogs turned on them and degoured the whole family.
 An old resident at Labrador told me chat one winters evening he was sit unE reading when be heard a furious barking among h.5 dogs outside Fighting among the pack was so com mon that he took no GotlCe ot the dls- urbauee Next morning the cause of lhe row was discovered. A poor Es- kimo woman was coming Co Jhe house for medicine for her sick child, She stumbled over the heap ot snow near Lhe door. The pack spTaug on her, and some rags and bones discovered next morning told the tale ot her tragic fate.
 The Newfoundland Fishermen often bring home these Eskimo dogs from Labrador. They Invariably turn out sheep killers. and the ccosshred ones have aH the same savage instinct They have been kuowu to kiII a score or more sheep m one night. an being found with tbeIr threats torn, but not one eaten. It Is simply Jhs savage lust Cor blood. The early settlers in New EouudHua found the great timber wolves a terrible pest They killed lbeir sheep and cattle and sometimes attacked women and children. They were continually chased and killed, but stfu they increased, A handsome bounty ou wuIfskIus. however, even uaIly brought about tbelF eNGrpauOn,
 Animals thag hunt or move together ln packs always retain this character Lstlc. The reindeer Ia Lapiaud have been trained and domesucated by man for countless generations. but they sJill retain th.s Instinct Of Jhe pack AS soon as the team moves alI the rein deer start of. nothing can stop them While the savage pack hunting char acter Of lLe Eskimo dog remains so long unchanged. we have. on the oth sr hand Iu setter and retriever dogs a very strlEisg illustration 0f how an .8rtf8etaI character can be given Co the dog and a special characteristic drm.y
 implanted lu a breed and retained for centuries. It Is. however. purely arri- HeHl and ls easily lost For instance, 5etgers and pointers kept by ladies as bets and not trained lose the instinct to point The uurained breed within a generation lose It altogether. Every sportsman knows that the young ones are very easily trained and point nat uraLly. ] have seen setter pups only six weeks old setting a, dies-
 The instinct for retrieving Is perpet- uated iu no breed so strongly as the real Newfoundland dog. the fisher mans friend and constant companion and the most splendid ot all rerieyers- A remarkable Instance of his gifts and courage is the story of a NewtouRt- land settler. George Harvey, how with the aid o1 his dog and two children be saved IG3 lives ln 1882 In the autumn of that year the brig Dispatch, on her way Co Quebec with emigrauts, in tremendous gale of wind struck rock about three miles from HaTyey's resi- dence at Isle aux Norts Harvey heard the signals Of distress and Immediately launched bls boat His only help was a boy of twelve, his girl, sixteen years old aud his log, To get close to the doomed ship In such a sea was to court destruction Harvey's dos understood what was required ot him He swan toward the ship, The seas 0yerwhelm- ca hlm and drove him back, but final ly be came near enough. The sailors threw hlm a rope, which be caught with his teeth, At last he got back to Haryeyrs boat almost dead from ex- hausuon. but with the ropes end firm v cHncbed In his teeth Communica- tion between the boat and the ship was then established, and with care and the most Iaborious efforts every soul was saved CD Judge PrOWse n