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CHAPTER III - Burning Daylight
[4] A gee-pole: stout pole projecting forward from one side of the front end of the sled, by which the sled is steered.
"Mush, you beauties!" he cried.
The animals threw their weights against their breastbands on the instant, crouching low to the snow, and digging in their claws. They whined eagerly, and before the sled had gone half a dozen lengths both Daylight and Kama (in the rear) were running to keep up. And so, running, man and dogs dipped over the bank and down to the frozen bed of the Yukon, and in the gray light were gone. ![]()
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