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Updated: June 20, 2025
Been many days on the road?" "Three weeks." The traveller was conscious of three pairs of eyes fixed upon his face. "Hoofing right along?" "Yes. I missed the trail nearly a week back. Followed the track of a dog-train. It came some distance this way. Then I lost it." "Ah! Food ran out, maybe."
Enough has been given to enable every bright boy and clever girl who reads these pages to see how it is that travellers get along in a land where only the canoe in summer and the dog-train in winter afford them any possibilities for locomotion.
"Maintiens le droit" was the motto of the Mounted. Tom did not intend that the morale of that body should suffer through him if he could help it. Angus McRae had offered his dog-train for the pursuit and Beresford had promptly accepted. The four dogs of the Scotch trapper were far and away better than any others that could be picked up in a hurry.
This was curiously black in contrast with the white surroundings, for no snow was upon its weedy branches and shrivelled, discoloured leaves. Suddenly, while Grey was looking out beyond the dog-train, he observed the impress of snow-shoes in the snow. He pointed to them and drew his companion's attention. "You see," he said triumphantly, "there has been some one passing this way just ahead of us.
Seven months since the mutilated body of Allan Mowbray had been packed home by dog-train to its last resting place within the storm-swept Fort he had labored so hard to serve. It was the open season again.
More men joined the Snare Lake stampede flat-faced breeds from the lower Mackenzie, evil-visaged rivermen from the country of the Athabasca and the Slave, and the renegade white men who were Lapierre's underlings. By dog-train and on foot they came, dragging their outfits behind them, and in the eyes of each was the gleam of the greed of gold.
And the knowledge that it was so even to us made our hearts fill with sympathy for one far away, to whom the sad tidings would have more than the bitterness of death. Our great excitement after winter had set in in earnest was the arrival of the first dog-train.
After we became accustomed to the canoe and dog-train, we rejoiced that we were counted worthy to be the Messengers of Good Tidings'to these neglected ones, who, having lost faith in their old paganism, were longing for something better.
It was forwarded in summer by canoe, in winter by dog-train, for the enormous distance of four thousand five hundred miles. And let me tell you, it is to-day, as it was two hundred years ago, the pride of the Company's people that not one packet was ever lost beyond recovery.
A man who will run on snowshoes eighteen hundred miles behind a dog-train as a Senator I know did in his youth, and a woman of middle life, who will "come out" as they say in the North and study medicine at her own expense that she may minister to the Indians where she lives are not types of a race to lie down whipped under Fate. Canada will do things in the world of nations shortly.
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