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Justice over Ice. Last winter a white trapper who heard the story reported it to Mounties at Cambridge Bay. By plane and dog sled, two policemen went up to investigate. They found the guileless Eskimos-including Eeriykoot and Ishakak -perfectly willing to talk. The police arrested the two friends, exhumed Nukashook's body for an inquest...
...lonely cabin near the Sikanni River in Northern British Columbia, Trapper John Pich, 38, lay abed. Two days before he had eaten tainted food. Now his belly was bloated and he was in mortal agony. Primitive John Pich thought he would die if the poison was not taken from his stomach...
...Trapper Pich took up his eight-inch hunting knife, plunged it into his belly. He groped for his stomach, could not find it. Because he knew he must die unless he got help, he staggered across the cabin to his rifle, went to the door, fired three shots-the S 0 S of the wild...
Pich's nearest neighbor, Trapper George Farrel, miles away in the frozen forest, heard no shots. But Parrel's huskies sensed something wrong and grew restless, soon were howling. Farrel broke camp, set out for Pich's cabin. After struggling through a blizzard he got there in time to hear Pich gasp out his story before he died. Outside, Farrel found the bodies of Pich's huskies. To save them from starving, Pich had shot them...
...What Trapper Driberg innocently calls a "possibly outmoded derivation" the Oxford English Dictionary labels "an ingenious but baseless conjecture...