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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 49

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skimo boys have a way of playing atmusk-ox hunting that is very vigorous and earnest.In April, 1879, when I was on a sledge-journeyto King Williams Land, we came upon a herdof musk-oxen that we had sighted the day before,and after running them with dogs for a mile or two,the herd was surrounded, or… … LITTLE BOREAS SHOOTING AT THE DOCS. larger, more powerful and ferocious than thoseseen in our country; and when pressed with hun-ger, they do not hesitate at all to make a mealoff the Eskimo dogs, which they kill and eat at thevery door of the igloo, if not prevented in someway. They are very much…

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