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"It was a hard day's run, up the Canyon, through Sheep Camp, past the Scales and the timber line, across glaciers and snowdrifts hundreds of feet deep, and over the great Chilcoot Divide, which stands between the salt water and the fresh and guards forbiddingly the sad and lonely North.
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| Jack London, Call of the Wild |
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133 1/3 miles. With only three dogs, Jack London covered the last 100 miles in 48 hours more than it would have taken him with 5 dogs. With 5 dogs he would have gone 5/3 more miles (166 2/3 miles) in the same period of time. So at full speed with five dogs he would have covered 66 2/3 miles in 48 hours, or 33 1/3 miles in 24 hours. That means that during the first 24 hour period he did 33 1/3 miles, and on the second leg 100 miles.
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