without casualties, was to find some means of travel other than sleighs. So we bought a skiff (a small flat bottomed boat) and a canoe. We put steel runners under the skiff and hauled it with nine dogs. We lashed the canoe onto a small sleigh and could handle it easily with two dogs. Hauling our outfit this way prevented loss and damage to records of the trip, from being immersed in water.
“Gypsum Point” on Great Slave Lake was our first objective and from these we had to cross the Lake, 66 miles, to Resolution. Half way to Gypsum Point, we passed a place where 12 trains of dogs (60 in all) and all dog drivers and passengers, were precipitated
