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Into the heart of this Cogmollock encampment trudged Corporal Doak in search of an Eskimo killer.

Up on blizzard-swept Hudson Bay,
Major Moodie, austere and deter-
mined, was wresting the ancient sway
from the fur lords, enforcing game
laws and protecting the rapidly dis-
ippearing musk-oxen and, at the same
time, establishing friendly relations
with still another tribe of fur-clad
Huskies.

Lured to the fertile valley of the
Peace, white settlers were now thread-
ing the ancient hunting trails with
covered wagons. Staff-Sergeant Ander-
son, a burly, hard-boiled Icelander,
sent north to stop the flow of contra-
band, rushed in where angels feared
to tread and in six months had driven
the roughnecks from the country, or
had them safe behind the bars. Trail-
ing a wanted killer into the heart of
the unmapped Rockies and finding his
quarry dead—he brought back the
severed head in a gunnysack for evi-
dence.

Crime dropped to zero till Charlie
King shot his partner. The clue of
bawling cattle and grease from the
smoke of dry wood on the underside
of leaves led the indefatigable Andy
on a trail that uncovered a revolting
crime, whisked King to Fort Sas-
katchewan and arrayed eighty wit-
nesses against the man who thought
he’d committed another “perfect
crime.”

Mounties Starved and Froze

Up on the rim of the unknown
Arctic Stefansson’s discovery of
“Blonde” Eskimos sent another stam-
pede of whites into the trackless
white wastes of the polar bear for
white gold—Arctic foxes. Then out of
the polar mists came word that Rad-
ford and Street, explorers, were miss-
ing. Combing the _ blizzard-swept

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tundra, patrols of Mounties starved
and froze, and for five long, awful
years pitted their puny strength
against a hostile world of whiteness
in a search for the Eskimo murderers
of these two men.

Then the killing of Fathers Rouvier
and LeRoux by bloody-thirsty Cog-
mollocks sent Inspector (later Assist-
ant Commissioner) C. D. LaNauze on
a 10,000-mile trek which brought two
sweating Stone Age savages to the
stone igloos of the whites in Calgary
to answer to a charge of murder.
Next, the killing by Iglulik Eskimos
of a crazed trader sent Sergeant Joy
to the very peak of glacial Baffin
Land, there to establish in the very
shadow of the Pole the northernmost
detachment of any police force in the
world.

Meanwhile, the Cogmollock habit
of destroying unwanted female chil-
dren at birth had led to a shortage of
women in the tribe, necessitating any
young up-and-coming hunter who
wanted a wife taking one from some
other Eskimo by force. And, since the
usual Cogmollock method was to re-
move the superfluous husband by a
quick stab or shot in the back when
least suspecting, murder had become
rife and blood feuds were staining the
ice-fields crimson. Determined to put
a stop to this infanticide and attend-
ant killings, Inspector (later Com-
missioner) Stuart T. Wood, Officer
Commanding at Herschel Island,
snapped into action. For a present of
a rifle, young sixteen-year-old Ali-
goomiak had been persuaded by his
uncle, Tatamagama, to dispose of an
Eskimo named Pugnana so _ that
Tatamagama could get his wife.
Across the white wastes to Kent Pen-
insula in the shadow of the Magnetic

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