Simply by becoming Christian, many Eskimos have had to add a dog to their team. On north Baffin Island every Eskimo above the age of six has his own Prayer Book and New Testament printed in syllabic character writing. In addition, every family has one or two or often three books of the Old Testament, plus notebooks and paper for jotting down Bible quotations and references. If there are six people in a family, the total weight, plus that of one small bag of lour, means an additional dog on the team.

Doug Wilkinson in Land of the Long Day