The temperature of a new man trying to drive a team of Eskimo dogs is apt to be pretty high.

One is almost inclined to believe with the Eskimos that demons take possession of these animals.

Sometimes they seem to be quite crazy.

A favorite trick of theirs is to leap over and under and around each other, getting their traces in a snarl beside which the Gordian knot would be as nothing.

Then, in a temperature anywhere between zero and 60 deg.