Here was one that excelled in the things worth excelling in, a man-god ready to hand, and Kama could not but worship--withal he gave no signs of it.
No wonder the race of white men conquered, was his thought, when it bred men like this man.

What chance had the Indian against such a dogged, enduring breed?
Even the Indians did not travel at such low temperatures, and theirs was the wisdom of thousands of generations; yet here was this Daylight, from the soft Southland, harder than they, laughing at their fears, and swinging along the trail ten and twelve hours a day.

And this Daylight thought that he could keep up a day's pace of thirty-three miles for sixty days! Wait till a fresh fall of snow came down, or they struck the unbroken trail or the rotten rim-ice that fringed open water.
In the meantime Kama kept the pace, never grumbling, never shirking.
Sixty-five degrees below zero is very cold.

Since water freezes at thirty-two above, sixty-five below meant ninety-seven degrees below freezing-point.

Some idea of the significance of this may be gained by conceiving of an equal difference of temperature in the opposite direction.