AMAZING DOGS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)

AMAZING DOGS

VOTJR husky dogs are on the last lap of a 9000-mile round trip in North (America. " ; ' Their next stop Lpndon, not Smoky London, which a. Cockney recruit from Canada in the war described aV"half the blessedworld," but the Canadian town. It is one of the milestones on the journey which began in January last year at Churchill in Arctic Canada, and will eud there next April. The team of huskies is led by King £Taylor, a notable man' among sled drivers, who has led teams to victory in the yearly competition attracting "mushers" and their huskies from >o<rr»ocr=>o<=>o<=:

every part of the Dominion, and ending at Montreal. King Taylor and his dogs have mushed from Churchill to Regina, on to Winnipeg arid the Lake of the Woods, on the Canada-U.S. border, to White River and North Bay, and thm turning south to Toronto and Niagara, where they crossed into the United filiates. Once there they visited Albany, New York, and Boston before turning back for home. Now they are off again on their travels and adventures, which are many and various. They have run into blizzards, and once the sled was struck by a freight train at a level-crossing. =

9000-mile Trip of and His

The man, like his huskies, sleeps out in the open, more than once wrapped up in his sleeping bag while the thermometer was at 70 below zero. The party has sometimes been near starving, but when things are going as they should tho four dogs sliarc 12 pounds of meat a day. That keeps them going, GO miles in tho day in winter when the sled is on runners, but only 30 in summer when it runs on wheels. It is . a care-freo life, with nothing to spend money on except food, and King Taylor pays his way by selling photographs of himself and his dogs.