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Updated: June 11, 2025
There was no room for His Majesty the King either in official reserve or mundane gorgeousness. He had discovered that, ages and ages ago before even Chimo came to the house, or Miss Biddums had ceased grizzling over a packet of greasy letters which appeared to be her chief treasure on earth.
During the previous winter, besides attending to his post duties, he killed nearly half a hundred caribou to supply his Post and Fort Chimo with man and dog food, and in the same season his traps yielded him two hundred fox pelts mostly white ones his personal catch. This was not an unusual year's work for him. Mary inherits her father's hunting instincts.
A sarcastic smile played for a moment on the face of the gigantic Esquimau, as he thought of the ease with which he should crush his approaching foe; and his hand was already raised to strike when it was arrested by a low whine, and the next moment Chimo was endeavouring to clamber upon his shoulder! It instantly occurred to Maximus that he might turn the dog's swimming powers to good account.
The laugh made Chimo start off at full gallop, which caused Frank to grasp the line of the sledge that trailed behind, and hurry over the snow at a most undignified pace. "Take care of her," cried Mr Stanley. "Ay, ay," shouted Frank. "Softly, Chimo softly, you rascal!"
"I can answer for that," said Frank; "I know her pretty face well." "Ah! le poor chien," cried La Roche; "it vill eat Miss Edith, I ver' much b'lieve, voila!" This seemed not unlikely, for the joy manifested by poor Chimo at the sight of his young mistress was of a most outrageous character, insomuch that the child was nearly overturned by the dog's caresses.
At the last shot he passed from the cave so silently and quickly that even Chimo was deceived, and snuffed the air for a moment ere it renewed its sad wailing. In less than two minutes the Esquimau had glided, with the noiseless tread of a panther, to the spot where the canoe lay. Here he found his wife and the old woman crouching beside it. The water's edge was about ten yards distant.
The door was padded all round its edges with fur, which tended to check the bitter wind that often blew against it, and tempered the slight draught that did force its way through. Altogether the hall at Fort Chimo was curious and comfortable rather shaggy in its general appearance, but sound and trustworthy at bottom.
Here Edith paused to put on her snow-shoes, for the snow in the ravine was soft, being less exposed to the hardening action of the wind; and the dog sat down to wait patiently until she was ready. "Now, Chimo, go forward, my good dog. I will follow you without fear," she said, when the lines were properly fastened to her feet.
"Hallo! what have we here?" exclaimed Stanley, starting from his seat in amazement, as the giant entered the hall of Fort Chimo his left hand grasping a blood-stained wolf by the throat, and Edith resting in his right arm.
The record left by him of the journey, however, is very incomplete, and the exact route he took is by no means certain. Whatever route it was, he returned over it the same winter to Fort Chimo. His sufferings during this trip were extreme.
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