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Updated: May 28, 2025
With this he shouted "Ooisht!" to the dogs, and breaking the komatik loose, "Ouk! Ouk! Ouk!" until they were pointing toward the opposite shore of the bay, and farther inland. "And you runs ahead of the dogs now," suggested Toby, "'twill help un to work faster. I'll push un with the whip. Make toward the Capstan.
He was trained to respond to shouted directions, turning to the right when "ouk" was called, or left for "rudder," the word being repeated several times by the driver in rapid succession. When it was desired that the dogs should stop, "ah" was the order, and when they were to go forward "ooisht," or "oksuit." The other dogs followed Tinker as a pack of wolves follows the leader.
"Let's take a chance at it," said Charley. "This wind can't move the ice, and we can get across before it gets blowing much harder." "Ooisht!" called Toby, breaking the komatik loose, and away went the dogs. "Oksuit! Oksuit!" Toby kept calling to the dogs, snapping the whip over them and urging them ahead. "What's that?"
The big, wolfish creatures loved him and they feared him. He almost never had to use the long walrus-hide whip. They obeyed him on the instant without hesitation "Ooisht," and they pulled in the harness as one; "Aw," and they stopped. There was a power in his voice that governed them like magic.
"Ooisht! ooisht!" started the dogs forward as the first feathery flakes of the threatened storm fell lazily down. Not a breath of wind was stirring and no sound broke the ominous silence of the night save the crunch of our feet on the snow and the voice of the driver urging on the dogs. Boas went ahead, leading the team on the trail.
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