two minutes with the priest at Anvig. Yes,
there is a man with one eye who has gone by and who travels fast. And I
know that for which they look is the man with the one eye. We leave
Anvig with little grub, and travel light and fast. There are three fresh
dogs bought in Anvig, and we travel very fast. The man and woman are
like mad. We start earlier in the morning, we travel later at night. I
look sometimes to see them die, these two baby wolves, but they will not
die. They go on and on. When the dry cough take hold of them hard, they
hold their hands against their stomach and double up in the snow, and
cough, and cough, and cough. They cannot walk, they cannot talk. Maybe
for ten minutes they cough, maybe for half an hour, and then they
straighten up, the tears from the coughing frozen on their faces, and the
words they say are, 'Come, let us go on.'

"Even I, Sitka Charley, am greatly weary, and I think seven hundred and
fifty dollars is a cheap price for the labor I do. We take the big cut-
off, and the trail is fresh. The baby wolves have their noses down to
the trail, and they say, 'Hurry!' All the time do they say, 'Hurry!
Faster! Faster!' It is hard on the dogs. We have not much food and we
cannot give them enough to eat, and they grow weak. Also, they must work
hard. The woman has true sorrow for them, and often, because of them,
the tears are in her eyes. But the devil in her that drives her on will
not let her stop and rest the dogs.

"And then we come upon the man with the one eye. He is in the snow by
the trail, and his leg is broken. Because of the leg he has made a poor
camp, and has been lying on his blankets for three days and keeping a
fire going. When we find him he is swearing. He swears like hell. Never
have I heard a man swear like that man. I am glad. Now that they have
found that for which they look, we will have rest. But the woman says,
'Let us start. Hurry!'

"I am surprised. But the man with the one eye says, 'Never mind me. Give
me your grub. You will get more grub at McKeon's cabin to-morrow. Send
McKeon back for me. But do you go on.' Here is another wolf, an old
wolf, and he, too, thinks but the one thought, to go on. So we give him
our grub, which is not much, and we chop wood for his fire, and we take
his strongest dogs and go on. We left the man with one eye there in the
snow, and he died there in the snow, for McKeon never went back for him.
And