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The Management of Sledge Dogs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Alexander R. Glen
Affiliation:
5 Avenue Court, Draycott Avenue, London, S.W. 3.
G. C. L. Bertram
Affiliation:
Zoological Laboratory, Cambridge.

Extract

Dog-driving methods are a subject on which no two people think alike, and whenever two or three men meet together in the Arctic, they form the basis for endless discussion and argument. We can remember many a good night's sleep lost when a visitor arrived apparently tired out, but with enough energy left to sit up all night arguing the relative merits of fan or centre trace, or something of that sort. For this reason we feel rather diffident in adding our opinions to those already published recently in The Polar Record. With regard to different equipment, harness, sledges and team formations—these are almost entirely a question of local conditions and, therefore, not really worth arguing about. For instance, in North-East Greenland, we used regularly fan, centre trace and tandem formations to suit differing snow conditions, etc., and each was, under the right conditions, definitely superior to the other two.

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Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1939

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References

1 A specimen of this harness is now in the Museum of the Institute.—Ed.