A Northern Experience: The Journals of Norman Robinson
Surveying the North Page 30

a good supply of dog feed.

Next day we all crossed over.

Our complete outfit and everyone except Charlie McDonald and I, went in the skiff.

They also took two dogs.

Charlie and I had to bring the remaining 9 dogs in the canoe.

Sleigh dogs are used to canoeing and remain lying down whilst travelling [traveling] in this way, but, on this occasion, waves were breaking over the canoe and whenever a dog got wet, he would stand up and shake himself. As we were overloaded and having a hard time to fight wind and seas, all we could do was to rap them with our paddles and yell at them to lie down, which they always did.

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