dog-sledges

Born in 1832 in Finland, he had taken part in an Arctic expedition in 1861, which attempted to reach the North Pole by means of dog-sledges from the north coast of Spitzbergen.

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

It was decided to take eight pony-sledges and two dog-sledges, together with about a ton of pony food, sledging rations, dog biscuit, and paraffin to

South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918

Ocean, of dog-sledges, white bears and reindeer-riding

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

They reached Skaguay in a snowstorm, went in dog-sledges over the Chilkoot Pass, and shot the Yukon in flatboats.

My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

I worked away with my tools, and whenever those powdering winter gales eased for a little, Amatikita and his friends would go off with the howling dog-sledges and the Henrys, and it was rare that they'd come back without one bear, and often they'd bring two or even three.

The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907

Siberia, with its polar snows and bears, its dog-sledges, and its almost everlasting winter.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

It is to be seen in the eyes of those who, living in Spartan simplicity, make long marches with the dog-sledges in the Arctic frost, drive the logs down roaring rivers, or toil sixteen hours daily under a blazing sun in the western harvest field.

The Gold Trail Harold Bindloss 1905

He had traversed the country from Saint Paul to Winnipeg on foot, by ox-carts, on horseback, by dog-sledges.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885

Greenland, and that the Dog-men are Esquimaux, clad in furs, and riding in dog-sledges.

The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878

Its crowds in summer brought variety enough; and its virgin winter snows, the dog-sledges, the ice-boats, were month by month

The Mothers Of Honoré From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874