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A Figure Like That<br />

FIFTY-TWO<br />

A Greenlandic hunter, called Erik, was setting<br />

up his sledge with the huskies - not yet<br />

strapped to their harness – waiting and playing<br />

together patiently. Erik, Erik’s father and<br />

grandfather and their ancestors had always<br />

used dogs to power their sledges and although<br />

technically snowmobiles were faster and<br />

probably carried much more it wasn’t the<br />

nostalgia and his fondness for the dogs that had<br />

stopped Erik from modernising, no, it was<br />

predominantly because the main danger in the<br />

artic was drowning under broken thin ice and<br />

the huskies ,and malamutes who were another<br />

similar artic bred dog species that had<br />

historically been used for this purpose, have a<br />

six sense - certainly an evolutionary behavioural<br />

trait - about the thickness of the ice below<br />

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