Northward Over the "Great Ice" - A Narrative of Life and Work Along the Shores and Upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897; With a Description of the Little Tribe of Smith-Sound Eskimos, the Most... #228168

Poor fellow I mourned him all day long. Though possessing, perhaps, the least stamina of any of the surviving dogs of the 1892 inland-ice journey, he had during his sojourn in civilisation become the most affectionate of the team, and had even learned some civilised customs, such, for instance, as shaking hands. It seemed a pity that, after having gone through so much. He should have been lost at this time, and, like one of Hall's Eskimos, have died on his way home, just after he had seen the first ice.