Kit then made signs to the Huskies to lift at their pole.

They raised it; and the sailors lifting the stern at the same time, and walking on, we had it fairly started.
It was pretty heavy, however.

The Esquimaux soon began to pant; seeing which, we had them set it down and rest every thirty or forty rods.
We were near an hour getting back to their huts.

They had worked well.
Their part of the load must have been somewhat over a hundred pounds per man, we thought.
"Better than niggers; a great deal better," Wade pronounced them.

"I'm not sure that it wouldn't be a good plan to import them into the United States to work on our railroads." "For slaves, I suppose," said Raed.
"No; not for slaves.