“At the man’s heels trotted a dog, a big native husky, the roper wolfdog, grey- coated and without visible or temperamental difference form its brother, the wild wolf. The animal was depressed by the tremendous cold. It knew that it was no time for traveling.” The dog did not need a thermometer to alert it to the dangerous conditions.The dog's primitive instincts give it a first-rate awareness of the wilderness, and awareness that is far more realistic that the man’s instincts. “The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick to alert in things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.” The man did not lack intelligence, however he was arrogant and over confident. The man was a newcomer to the
