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DOG-TRAIN FOR THE NORTH.
The Wild North Land
THE STORY OF A WINTER JOURNEY WITH
DOGS ACROSS NORTHERN NORTH AMERICA
BY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL
SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS BUTLER, G.C.B.
AUTHOR OF
“THE GREAT LONE LAND” AND “RED CLOUD, THE SOLITARY SIOUX”
“I cannot rest from travel. I will drink life to the lees.”
“I am become a name for always roaming with a hungry heart.”
WITH FIFTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP
TORONTO
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF
CANADA, LTD.
1910
SIR WILLIAM BUTLER’S WILD NORTH LAND.
BRITISH
NORTH AMERICA
to illustrate
“THE WILD NORTH LAND”
PREFACE.
People are supposed to have an object in everyjourney they undertake in this world. A mangoes to Africa to look for the Nile, to Rometo see the Coliseum or St. Peter’s; and once, Ibelieve, a certain traveller tramped all the way toJerusalem for the sole purpose of playing ballagainst the walls of that city.
As this matter of object, then, seems to be arule with travellers, it may be asked by those whoread this book, what object had the writer inundertaking a journey across the snowy wildernessof North America, in winter and alone? Ifear there is no answer to be given to the question,save such as may be found in the motto onthe title-page, or in the pages of the book itself.
About eighteen months ago I was desirous ofentering upon African travel. A great explorerhad been lost for years in the vast lake-region ofSouthern Central Africa, and the British Nation—which,viby the way, becomes singularly attached toa man when he is dead, or supposed to be dead—grewanxious to go out to look for him.
As the British Nation could not all go out atonce, or together, it endea