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At the same time they seemed savage to us, for they wore no clothing but twisty skins about their middles, ankle-cut moccasins, and the Peace Mark on their foreheads. "Because of the Mark they bore no weapons but the short hunting-bow and wolfskin quivers, with the tails hanging down, and painted breastbands. They were chiefs, by their way of walking, and one of them had brought his son with him.
The animals threw their weights against their breastbands on the instant, crouching low to the snow, and digging in their claws. And so, running, man and dogs dipped over the bank and down to the frozen bed of the Yukon, and in the gray light were gone. Tenderfeet. Old-timers. Muc-luc: a water-tight, Eskimo boot, made from walrus-hide and trimmed with fur.
He cursed the brutes fiercely, but could not cow them. They replied with neck-bristling and snarling, and with quick lunges against their breastbands. He remembered Oleson, and turned his back upon them and went along the trail. He scarcely took notice of his lacerated leg. It was bleeding freely; the main artery had been torn, but he did not know it.
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