Dave had no relish for standing the full force of those sledge-hammer blows, while Treadwell knew that he must look out for the unexpected from his still nimble opponent.

It was the sledge-dog way of fighting.

The sledge-runners had frozen to the snow, and it took every ounce of his strength to free them.

Packing the provisions for the sledge journey was of the greatest importance.

Runners carried the word over the mountains and through the swamps, and a hundred sledge parties searched the forest trails for the man-fiend and his son.

Fuel for cooking 100 Cooking apparatus 45 Personal clothing, &c., say 100 Tent, say 30 Instruments, &c. 100 - 375 This is half of one of ten sledge loads, or about one-twentieth of the total weight carried.

that Atkinson and Crean had gone towards Safety Camp as we went to Hut Pointlater we saw their sledge track leading round on the sea ice.

This piqued me somewhat and I marched till the sledge meter showed 6 1/2 miles.

We are all acting like seasoned sledge travellers now, such is the force of example.

For the wolves, quick as light to feel the presence of danger, were already far away, trotting swiftly up the frozen arm of the harbor, following another sledge trail which came down that morning from the wilderness.

'Now and then, since the day the traders had first bought him and put him into sledge-traces away over on the Mackenzie, he had often thought of this freedom longingly, the wolf blood in him urging him to take it.

In less than a quarter of an hour they had started; and Bernardine leaned luxuriously back to enjoy to the full her first sledge-drive.

How pretty those sledge-bells are, to be sure!

But the big husky turned away sullenly, growling, still snarling, and vented his rage by nipping fiercely at the flank of one of his sledge-mates.

Evans and Crean are repairing sleeping-bags, covering felt boots, and generally working on sledging kit.

Sledging-parties.

In their sledge trip he would have her to himself, for not only an hour or two, but for days.

He has never been worth much since, but remained lively in spite of all the hardships of sledging work.

The season for dog-sledge travel was now over; and as the country afforded no other means of interior transportation, we could not expect to do any more work, or have any further communication with our outlying parties at Anadyrsk and Okhotsk until the arrival of our vessels.

" From outside there came the sharp cracking of a sledge-driver's whip and Gregson went to one of the small windows looking out upon the clearing.

Bjaaland, our ski and sledmaker, took the sleds in hand, and when spring arrived he had entirely made over our sledge equipment.

Over in the high log stockade wherein the Company's sledge animals were confined, other wolf-dogs howled mournfully, desolated at missing the fun.

" Thus urged O'Riley rose, and throwing his sledge-strap over his shoulder, plodded on wearily with the rest.

through the Siberian plains for 1200 m.; it is navigable almost all the way in summer, and in winter it is a highway for sledge traffic; on its banks stand Semipalatinsk, Omsk, and Tobolsk.

There is some uncertainty about the word sledded or sleaded (which latter suggests lead), but we have the word sledge and sledge-hammer, the smith's heaviest, and the phrase, 'a sledging blow.'